Samuel Johnson Quotes

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel johnson - a fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end...
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel johnson - our aspirations are our possibilities....
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel johnson - the road to hell is paved with good intentions....
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty - One, little did I suspect that I should be at forty - Nine, what I now am.
Samuel Johnson
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Samuel Johnson
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.
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
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson
A cucumber should be well - Sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
Grief is a species of idleness.
Samuel Johnson
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson