Samuel Johnson Quotes

Samuel johnson - few things are impossible to diligence and skill....
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
Samuel Johnson
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Samuel Johnson
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Samuel Johnson
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel johnson - i hate mankind, for i think of myself as one of...
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel johnson - a man ought to read just as inclination leads him...
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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
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
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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
Grief is a species of idleness.
Samuel Johnson
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson