Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. — 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
