Samuel Johnson Quotes
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
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.Samuel Johnson
Your aspirations are your possibilities.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
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
Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.Samuel Johnson
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.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
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
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.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
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.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
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
