Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
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