Samuel Johnson Quotes And Sayings

Every Man Has A Right To Utter What He Thinks Truth, And Every Other Man Has A Right To Knock Him Down For It. Martyrdom Is The Test.

I Look Upon Every Day To Be Lost, In Which I Do Not Make A New Acquaintance.

Nothing Is More Hopeless Than A Scheme Of Merriment.

So Far Is It From Being True That Men Are Naturally Equal, That No Two People Can Be Half An Hour Together, But One Shall Acquire An Evident Superiority Over The Other.

By Taking A Second Wife He Pays The Highest Compliment To The First, By Showing That She Made Him So Happy As A Married Man, That He Wishes To Be So A Second Time.

He Who Waits To Do A Great Deal Of Good At Once Will Never Do Anything.

Your Manuscript Is Both Good And Original; But The Part That Is Good Is Not Original, And The Part That Is Original Is Not Good.

No Place Affords A More Striking Conviction Of The Vanity Of Human Hopes Than A Public Library.

Life Is Not Long, And Too Much Of It Must Not Pass In Idle Deliberation How It Shall Be Spent.

Subordination Tends Greatly To Human Happiness. Were We All Upon An Equality, We Should Have No Other Enjoyment Than Mere Animal Pleasure.

Language Is The Dress Of Thought.

Human Life Is Everywhere A State In Which Much Is To Be Endured, And Little To Be Enjoyed.

You Cannot Spend Money In Luxury Without Doing Good To The Poor. Nay, You Do More Good To Them By Spending It In Luxury, Than By Giving It; For By Spending It In Luxury, You Make Them Exert Industry, Whereas By Giving It, You Keep Them Idle.

Actions Are Visible, Though Motives Are Secret.

Let Me Smile With The Wise, And Feed With The Rich.

The Chief Glory Of Every People Arises From Its Authors.

Many Things Difficult To Design Prove Easy To Performance.

What Makes All Doctrines Plain And Clear? About Two Hundred Pounds A Year. And That Which Was Proved True Before, Prove False Again? Two Hundred More.

There Are Few Things That We So Unwillingly Give Up, Even In Advanced Age, As The Supposition That We Still Have The Power Of Ingratiating Ourselves With The Fair Sex.

Every Man Is Rich Or Poor According To The Proportion Between His Desires And His Enjoyments.

The True Art Of Memory Is The Art Of Attention.

When A Man Says He Had Pleasure With A Woman He Does Not Mean Conversation.

It Is Reasonable To Have Perfection In Our Eye That We May Always Advance Toward It, Though We Know It Can Never Be Reached.

A Man Ought To Read Just As Inclination Leads Him, For What He Reads As A Task Will Do Him Little Good.

It Is Better To Live Rich Than To Die Rich.

We Are Long Before We Are Convinced That Happiness Is Never To Be Found, And Each Believes It Possessed By Others, To Keep Alive The Hope Of Obtaining It For Himself.

At Seventy-seven It Is Time To Be In Earnest.

Words Are But The Signs Of Ideas.

He That Fails In His Endeavors After Wealth Or Power Will Not Long Retain Either Honesty Or Courage.

It Is Dangerous For Mortal Beauty, Or Terrestrial Virtue, To Be Examined By Too Strong A Light. The Torch Of Truth Shows Much That We Cannot, And All That We Would Not, See.

The Happiest Part Of A Man's Life Is What He Passes Lying Awake In Bed In The Morning.

It Is Not True That People Are Naturally Equal For No Two People Can Be Together For Even A Half An Hour Without One Acquiring An Evident Superiority Over The Other.

I Would Be Loath To Speak Ill Of Any Person Who I Do Not Know Deserves It, But I Am Afraid He Is An Attorney.

Nobody Can Write The Life Of A Man But Those Who Have Eat And Drunk And Lived In Social Intercourse With Him.

No Money Is Better Spent Than What Is Laid Out For Domestic Satisfaction.

Were It Not For Imagination A Man Would Be As Happy In Arms Of A Chambermaid As Of A Duchess.

I Have Found Men To Be More Kind Than I Expected, And Less Just.

Everything That Enlarges The Sphere Of Human Powers, That Shows Man He Can Do What He Thought He Could Not Do, Is Valuable.

Integrity Without Knowledge Is Weak And Useless, And Knowledge Without Integrity Is Dangerous And Dreadful.

A Man Will Turn Over Half A Library To Make One Book.

That We Must All Die, We Always Knew; I Wish I Had Remembered It Sooner.

In Order That All Men May Be Taught To Speak The Truth, It Is Necessary That All Likewise Should Learn To Hear It.

Money And Time Are The Heaviest Burdens Of Life, And... The Unhappiest Of All Mortals Are Those Who Have More Of Either Than They Know How To Use.

There Is No Private House In Which People Can Enjoy Themselves So Well As At A Capital Tavern... No, Sir; There Is Nothing Which Has Yet Been Contrived By Man By Which So Much Happiness Is Produced As By A Good Tavern Or Inn.

Read Over Your Compositions, And When You Meet A Passage Which You Think Is Particularly Fine, Strike It Out.

It Is A Most Mortifying Reflection For A Man To Consider What He Has Done, Compared To What He Might Have Done.

The Two Offices Of Memory Are Collection And Distribution.

All The Arguments Which Are Brought To Represent Poverty As No Evil Show It Evidently To Be A Great Evil.

I Never Desire To Converse With A Man Who Has Written More Than He Has Read.

Disease Generally Begins That Equality Which Death Completes.