Samuel Johnson Quotes And Sayings

There Are Charms Made Only For Distant Admiration.

A Am A Great Friend Of Public Amusements, They Keep People From Vice.

Revenge Is An Act Of Passion; Vengeance Of Justice. Injuries Are Revenged; Crimes Are Avenged.

The Wretched Have No Compassion, They Can Do Good Only From Strong Principles Of Duty.

Some Desire Is Necessary To Keep Life In Motion, And He Whose Real Wants Are Supplied Must Admit Those Of Fancy.

No Man Can Taste The Fruits Of Autumn While He Is Delighting His Scent With The Flowers Of Spring.

He That Will Enjoy The Brightness Of Sunshine, Must Quit The Coolness Of The Shade.

Life Cannot Subsist In Society But By Reciprocal Concessions.

Of The Blessings Set Before You Make Your Choice, And Be Content.

Patriotism Is The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel.

Allow Children To Be Happy In Their Own Way, For What Better Way Will They Find?

To Strive With Difficulties, And To Conquer Them, Is The Highest Human Felicity.

Almost All Absurdity Of Conduct Arises From The Imitation Of Those Who We Cannot Resemble.

Praise, Like Gold And Diamonds, Owes Its Value Only To Its Scarcity.

What We Hope Ever To Do With Ease, We Must Learn First To Do With Diligence.

The Mind Is Never Satisfied With The Objects Immediately Before It, But Is Always Breaking Away From The Present Moment, And Losing Itself In Schemes Of Future Felicity... The Natural Flights Of The Human Mind Are Not From Pleasure To Pleasure, But From Hope To Hope.

The Return Of My Birthday, If I Remember It, Fills Me With Thoughts Which It Seems To Be The General Care Of Humanity To Escape.

The Future Is Purchased By The Present.

When Making Your Choice In Life, Do Not Neglect To Live.

By Seeing London, I Have Seen As Much Of Life As The World Can Show.

The Feeling Of Friendship Is Like That Of Being Comfortably Filled With Roast Beef; Love, Like Being Enlivened With Champagne.

He Who Has So Little Knowledge Of Human Nature As To Seek Happiness By Changing Anything But His Own Disposition Will Waste His Life In Fruitless Efforts.

What Is Easy Is Seldom Excellent.

The World Is Like A Grand Staircase, Some Are Going Up And Some Are Going Down.

Self-confidence Is The First Requisite To Great Undertakings.

To Keep Your Secret Is Wisdom; But To Expect Others To Keep It Is Folly.

If Your Determination Is Fixed, I Do Not Counsel You To Despair. Few Things Are Impossible To Diligence And Skill. Great Works Are Performed Not By Strength, But Perseverance.

It Is More From Carelessness About Truth Than From Intentionally Lying That There Is So Much Falsehood In The World.

Life Affords No Higher Pleasure Than That Of Surmounting Difficulties, Passing From One Step Of Success To Another, Forming New Wishes And Seeing Them Gratified.

No Man Will Be A Sailor Who Has Contrivance Enough To Get Himself Into A Jail; For Being In A Ship Is Being In A Jail, With The Chance Of Being Drowned... A Man In A Jail Has More Room, Better Food, And Commonly Better Company.

Few Enterprises Of Great Labor Or Hazard Would Be Undertaken If We Had Not The Power Of Magnifying The Advantages We Expect From Them.

It Is Better To Suffer Wrong Than To Do It, And Happier To Be Sometimes Cheated Than Not To Trust.

We Love To Expect, And When Expectation Is Either Disappointed Or Gratified, We Want To Be Again Expecting.

The Use Of Travelling Is To Regulate Imagination By Reality, And Instead Of Thinking How Things May Be, To See Them As They Are.

Leisure And Curiosity Might Soon Make Great Advances In Useful Knowledge, Were They Not Diverted By Minute Emulation And Laborious Trifles.

Nothing Flatters A Man As Much As The Happiness Of His Wife; He Is Always Proud Of Himself As The Source Of It.

No Man Was Ever Great By Imitation.

Where Grief Is Fresh, Any Attempt To Divert It Only Irritates.

Wine Gives A Man Nothing... It Only Puts In Motion What Had Been Locked Up In Frost.

Getting Money Is Not All A Man's Business: To Cultivate Kindness Is A Valuable Part Of The Business Of Life.

You Hesitate To Stab Me With A Word, And Know Not - Silence Is The Sharper Sword.

There Are Minds So Impatient Of Inferiority That Their Gratitude Is A Species Of Revenge, And They Return Benefits, Not Because Recompense Is A Pleasure, But Because Obligation Is A Pain.

There Is Nothing, Sir, Too Little For So Little A Creature As Man. It Is By Studying Little Things That We Attain The Great Art Of Having As Little Misery And As Much Happiness As Possible.

I Had Rather See The Portrait Of A Dog That I Know, Than All The Allegorical Paintings They Can Show Me In The World.

A Man Who Has Not Been In Italy, Is Always Conscious Of An Inferiority.

A Wise Man Is Cured Of Ambition By Ambition Itself; His Aim Is So Exalted That Riches, Office, Fortune And Favour Cannot Satisfy Him.

You Find No Man, At All Intellectual, Who Is Willing To Leave London. No, Sir, When A Man Is Tired Of London, He Is Tired Of Life; For There Is In London All That Life Can Afford.

When A Man Is Tired Of London, He Is Tired Of Life; For There Is In London All That Life Can Afford.

Almost Every Man Wastes Part Of His Life Attempting To Display Qualities Which He Does Not Possess.

Paradise Lost Is A Book That, Once Put Down, Is Very Hard To Pick Up Again.