Life Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

— Samuel Johnson

“Once a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”

— Samuel Johnson

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

— Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety.

— Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward.

— Samuel Johnson

Life protracted is protracted woe.

— Samuel Johnson

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

— Samuel Johnson

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

— Samuel Johnson

“Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.”

— Samuel Johnson

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy…

— Samuel Johnson

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

— Samuel Johnson

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

— Samuel Johnson

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

— Samuel Johnson

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem

— Samuel Johnson

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

— Samuel Johnson

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

— Samuel Johnson

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London,…

— Samuel Johnson

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

— Samuel Johnson

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He…

— Samuel Johnson

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…

— Samuel Johnson

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has…

— Samuel Johnson

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with…

— Samuel Johnson

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with…

— Samuel Johnson

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no…

— Samuel Johnson

He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he…

— Samuel Johnson

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended…

— Samuel Johnson

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may…

— Samuel Johnson

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste.…

— Samuel Johnson

Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous.…

— Samuel Johnson

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished,…

— Samuel Johnson

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering…

— Samuel Johnson

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family…

— Samuel Johnson

“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion…

— Samuel Johnson

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or…

— Samuel Johnson

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation…

— Samuel Johnson

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily…

— Samuel Johnson

It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of…

— Samuel Johnson

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…

— Samuel Johnson

By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,…

— Samuel Johnson

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…

— Samuel Johnson