Top 20 quotes from Samuel Johnson

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Top 20 quotes from Samuel Johnson


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.

Samuel Johnson


Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson


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.

Samuel Johnson


Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson


The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Samuel Johnson


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.

Samuel Johnson


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.

Samuel Johnson


Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson


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.

Samuel Johnson


Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Johnson


He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Samuel Johnson


Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Samuel Johnson


Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Samuel Johnson


Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Samuel Johnson


The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Samuel Johnson


It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Samuel Johnson


Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Samuel Johnson


All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Samuel Johnson


Exercise is labor without weariness.

Samuel Johnson


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.

Samuel Johnson

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Top 20 quotes from Samuel Johnson

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