Samuel Johnson Quotes

Samuel johnson - pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought...
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
Samuel Johnson
A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
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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
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
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Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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