Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:… — 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
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — 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
