Samuel Johnson Quotes
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.Samuel Johnson
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.Samuel Johnson
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.Samuel Johnson
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.Samuel Johnson
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.Samuel Johnson
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.Samuel Johnson
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.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
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.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
Grief is a species of idleness.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
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.Samuel Johnson
That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.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
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.Samuel Johnson
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
Your aspirations are your possibilities.Samuel Johnson
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition.Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.Samuel Johnson
