Samuel Johnson Quotes
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.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
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.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
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.Samuel Johnson
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.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
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.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
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Samuel Johnson
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.Samuel Johnson
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich.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 timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false.Samuel Johnson
A cucumber should be well - Sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.Samuel Johnson
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.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
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.Samuel Johnson
Our aspirations are our possibilities.Samuel Johnson
