Samuel Johnson Quotes
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.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
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
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
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.Samuel Johnson
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.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
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.Samuel Johnson
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.Samuel Johnson
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.Samuel Johnson
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.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
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.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
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
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.Samuel Johnson
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.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
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
