Samuel Johnson Quotes
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.Samuel Johnson
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.Samuel Johnson
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.Samuel Johnson
Grief is a species of idleness.Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.Samuel Johnson
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.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
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.Samuel Johnson
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Samuel Johnson
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.Samuel Johnson
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false.Samuel Johnson
That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition.Samuel Johnson
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.Samuel Johnson
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.Samuel Johnson
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
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel Johnson
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good.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
