Samuel Johnson Quotes And Sayings

The Love Of Life Is Necessary To The Vigorous Prosecution Of Any Undertaking.

Love Is The Wisdom Of The Fool And The Folly Of The Wise.

Bachelors Have Consciences, Married Men Have Wives.

When Any Calamity Has Been Suffered The First Thing To Be Remembered Is, How Much Has Been Escaped.

Classical Quotation Is The Parole Of Literary Men All Over The World.

Nature Has Given Women So Much Power That The Law Has Very Wisely Given Them Little.

To Love One That Is Great, Is Almost To Be Great One's Self.

A Man Of Genius Has Been Seldom Ruined But By Himself.

To Be Happy At Home Is The Ultimate Result Of All Ambition, The End To Which Every Enterprise And Labor Tends, And Of Which Every Desire Prompts The Prosecution.

The World Is Seldom What It Seems; To Man, Who Dimly Sees, Realities Appear As Dreams, And Dreams Realities.

From The Middle Of Life Onward, Only He Remains Vitally Alive Who Is Ready To Die With Life.

A Man May Be So Much Of Everything That He Is Nothing Of Anything.

Those Who Attain Any Excellence, Commonly Spend Life In One Pursuit; For Excellence Is Not Often Gained Upon Easier Terms.

All Travel Has Its Advantages. If The Passenger Visits Better Countries, He May Learn To Improve His Own. And If Fortune Carries Him To Worse, He May Learn To Enjoy It.

A Man Seldom Thinks With More Earnestness Of Anything Than He Does Of His Dinner.

Prepare For Death, If Here At Night You Roam, And Sign Your Will Before You Sup From Home.

The Natural Flights Of The Human Mind Are Not From Pleasure To Pleasure, But From Hope To Hope.

The Chains Of Habit Are Too Weak To Be Felt Until They Are Too Strong To Be Broken.

To Be Idle And To Be Poor Have Always Been Reproaches, And Therefore Every Man Endeavors With His Utmost Care To Hide His Poverty From Others, And His Idleness From Himself.

Love Is Only One Of Many Passions.

My Dear Friend, Clear Your Mind Of Cant.

If Pleasure Was Not Followed By Pain, Who Would Forbear It?

A Man Is In General Better Pleased When He Has A Good Dinner Upon His Table, Than When His Wife Talks Greek.

Knowledge Is Of Two Kinds. We Know A Subject Ourselves, Or We Know Where We Can Find Information Upon It.

Whoever Thinks Of Going To Bed Before Twelve O'clock Is A Scoundrel.

If A Man Does Not Make New Acquaintances As He Advances Through Life, He Will Soon Find Himself Left Alone. A Man, Sir, Should Keep His Friendship In A Constant Repair.

A Wise Man Will Make Haste To Forgive, Because He Knows The True Value Of Time, And Will Not Suffer It To Pass Away In Unnecessary Pain.

The Greatest Part Of A Writer's Time Is Spent In Reading In Order To Write. A Man Will Turn Over Half A Library To Make A Book.

Wine Makes A Man More Pleased With Himself; I Do Not Say It Makes Him More Pleasing To Others.

Depend Upon It That If A Man Talks Of His Misfortunes There Is Something In Them That Is Not Disagreeable To Him; For Where There Is Nothing But Pure Misery There Never Is Any Recourse To The Mention Of It.

Resolve Not To Be Poor: Whatever You Have, Spend Less. Poverty Is A Great Enemy To Human Happiness; It Certainly Destroys Liberty, And It Makes Some Virtues Impracticable, And Others Extremely Difficult.

Agriculture Not Only Gives Riches To A Nation, But The Only Riches She Can Call Her Own.

The Advice That Is Wanted Is Commonly Not Welcome And That Which Is Not Wanted, Evidently An Effrontery.

Surely A Long Life Must Be Somewhat Tedious, Since We Are Forced To Call In So Many Trifling Things To Help Rid Us Of Our Time, Which Will Never Return.

There Is Nothing Which Has Yet Been Contrived By Man, By Which So Much Happiness Is Produced As By A Good Tavern.

It Matters Not How A Man Dies, But How He Lives. The Act Of Dying Is Not Of Importance, It Lasts So Short A Time.

When A Man Knows He Is To Be Hanged In A Fortnight, It Concentrates His Mind Wonderfully.

I Have Always Considered It As Treason Against The Great Republic Of Human Nature, To Make Any Man's Virtues The Means Of Deceiving Him.

He Who Does Not Mind His Belly, Will Hardly Mind Anything Else.

Dictionaries Are Like Watches, The Worst Is Better Than None And The Best Cannot Be Expected To Go Quite True.

He That Undervalues Himself Will Undervalue Others, And He That Undervalues Others Will Oppress Them.

Friendship, Like Love, Is Destroyed By Long Absence, Though It May Be Increased By Short Intermissions.