Samuel Johnson Quotes

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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
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I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Samuel Johnson
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ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Samuel Johnson
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel Johnson
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
Samuel Johnson
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson
That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.
Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel Johnson
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.
Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Samuel Johnson
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson