Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson
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KELLY JONES To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in m...
WILLIAM HAMILTON He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afte...
BILL MAHER If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, w...
JEAN-ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN In Filey, you eat early to prepare for the highlight of the evening: social intercourse of a kind on...
DAVID HEWSON Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, ho...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, the...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, the...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have...
PETER DE VRIES I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.
CARMEN ELECTRA Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on torment...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU The greatest people in history were those who lived a life of significance and service. You can join...
MENSAH OTEH Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on bor...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a c...
JOSE BERGAMIN For we can now understand why it was that a man true to his conscience, in circumstances of such con...
GORDON BROWN A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child wh...
PABLO NERUDA The world can be divided into two categories: those who eat to live and those who live to eat.
VIKRANT PARSAI I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world a...
M. J. ROSE Let life be lived by those who are treated low by those who live lower than the lives lived by those...
CHELSEY CURTIS No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found...
HERMANN HESSE I discovered a rare man. In days of confused identities, this man knew who he was. Nothing could det...
JIMMY ALLEN The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief
RALPH WALDO EMERSON “Nobody looks to your awards, degrees and medals. People look to your faith in genuine relationshi...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Church is not for those who lived in a perfect life but it is for the people who admitted that they ...
DARWIN ARAMAN ERGINA Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.
PENN JILLETTE A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the chil...
PABLO NERUDA Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN In a sense, the child in him lived with him the rest of his life. ... For anyone who is writing for ...
DOUGLAS GRESHAM The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I co...
SUKARNO We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can ret...
HORACE Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
FRANCIS BACON Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN I think most people equate drunk driving to someone who stumbles out of the bar and is drunk, but yo...
MARK MITCHELL And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel sa...
BIBLE Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a ...
PETER COCHRANE I have lived with him up close and have seen nothing but good from him.
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI I can assure you that nobody finds it exciting to come to the ballpark this time of year and have to...
FIELDIN CULBRETH All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a commo...
PETER ACKROYD Another man whose social life has ruined him.
DASHIELL HAMMETT In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.
TIM WILLOCKS And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautifu...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE But nobody can write poetry all the time.
PETER DAVISON The wise man knows that not all those who sit in his camp are with him and not all those who sit in ...
DR HITESH C SHETH My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago
GEORGE GOBEL In order to contemplate, one must have something to contemplate. A life without experience provides ...
ANTHONY RYAN I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four year...
KATY PERRY Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my cha...
LIU CIXIN Here was a rare man, who lived a rare life and showed us the way to live life at its fullest.
JIMMY ALLEN Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupati...
WILLIAM GODWIN He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him ea...
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ALBERT CAMUS Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ri...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Sorry, but all I can think about are those people who were stranded in the snow and had to eat one a...
J. LYNN Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered...
THOMAS HARDY Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period...
HANS MATHESON Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 A ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement...
MERYN G. CALLANDER The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the le...
THOMAS HARDY I lived in the house with him and was his man Friday, I guess you could say. I took care of the hous...
CARL JACKSON Those who can, drive; those who can't, write.
AMEN ZWA, ESQ. Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have e...
ANNA GARLIN SPENCER You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JAMES D. MILES You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
MALCOLM FORBES While we all respect Sam Johnson for his military record and have empathy for his past sufferings, t...
BOB JOHNSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moment...
AVIJEET DAS a man of peace who did so much in his life. We know him so well, miss him so much and can only share...
PATRICK MOYNIHAN Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
GUY DAVENPORT Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed i...
BHAGAVAD GITA All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c...
RAYMOND CHANDLER You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
EMMA MCLAUGHLIN The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a pred...
W.J. DAVISON The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and
persistence toward a pred...
W.J. DAVISON He was a nobody. One of those shy kids who turned into social invalids when that first blast of adol...
JOHN BACKDERF He was a nobody. One of those shy kids who turned into social invalids when that first blast of adol...
DERF BACKDERF A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from ...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from ...
GURDJIEFF Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves hi...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehe...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON He who praises every body, praises nobody.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Whatever you have spend less.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is
transcribed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
reads as a task will do him little g...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the lev...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talk...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him littl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illust...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the
potentiality of growing rich beyond t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The endearing elegance of female friendship.
SAMUEL JOHNSON To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too sle...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continuall...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his ut...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharg...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the publi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON "He was a very good hater."
SAMUEL JOHNSON I like a good hater.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posse...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much...
SAMUEL JOHNSON In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over ha...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the
signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purc...
SAMUEL JOHNSON My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that w...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignora...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
SAMUEL JOHNSON That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let u...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagre...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many thing...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but per...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and att...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the par...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full mea...
SAMUEL JOHNSON As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his serva...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external age...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hangi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good unti...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effront...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. B...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make fa...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as m...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be aft...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves wit...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiabl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persu...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, an...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
SAMUEL JOHNSON To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and la...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bul...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly beco...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Suspicion is most often useless pain.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit tho...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely e...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No one ever became great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON