Samuel Johnson Quotes

"Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way."
-Samuel Johnson

"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it."
-Samuel Johnson in Marriage quotes.

"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
-Samuel Johnson in Writing quotes.

"Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult."
-Samuel Johnson

"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful."
-Samuel Johnson

"Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel."
-Samuel Johnson

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."
-Samuel Johnson in Friendship quotes.

"Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.' But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest."
-Samuel Johnson

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
-Samuel Johnson

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."
-Samuel Johnson in Quotations quotes.

"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."
-Samuel Johnson

"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
-Samuel Johnson

"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."
-Samuel Johnson

"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
-Samuel Johnson

"The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another."
-Samuel Johnson

"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."
-Samuel Johnson in Prejudice quotes.

"You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid."
-Samuel Johnson

"Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry. "
-Samuel Johnson

"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."
-Samuel Johnson in Quotations quotes.

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
-Samuel Johnson in Music quotes.

"It is better to live rich than to die rich. "
-Samuel Johnson

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
-Samuel Johnson in Perseverance quotes.

"An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere."
-Samuel Johnson

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."
-Samuel Johnson

"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good."
-Samuel Johnson

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
-Samuel Johnson

"Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
-Samuel Johnson