Men Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

— Samuel Johnson

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

— Samuel Johnson

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

— Samuel Johnson

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

— Samuel Johnson

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

— Samuel Johnson

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

— Samuel Johnson

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

— Samuel Johnson

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

— Samuel Johnson

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

— Samuel Johnson

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

— Samuel Johnson

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

— Samuel Johnson

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

— Samuel Johnson

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

— Samuel Johnson

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given…

— Samuel Johnson

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe,…

— Samuel Johnson

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature…

— Samuel Johnson

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is…

— Samuel Johnson

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in…

— Samuel Johnson

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a…

— Samuel Johnson

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a…

— 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

There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever…

— 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

There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be…

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but…

— Samuel Johnson

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present…

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with…

— Samuel Johnson

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it;…

— Samuel Johnson

No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of…

— Samuel Johnson

It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and…

— Samuel Johnson

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

— Samuel Johnson

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

— Samuel Johnson

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

— Samuel Johnson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

— Samuel Johnson

In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.

— Samuel Johnson

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

— Samuel Johnson