Samuel Johnson Quotes
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.Samuel Johnson
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false.Samuel Johnson
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.Samuel Johnson
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.Samuel Johnson
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.Samuel Johnson
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Your aspirations are your possibilities.Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.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
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.Samuel Johnson
That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.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
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.Samuel Johnson
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.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
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.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 is a hypocrite in his pleasures.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
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.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
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.Samuel Johnson
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.Samuel Johnson
