Age Quotes by Samuel Johnson

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

— Samuel Johnson

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

— Samuel Johnson

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

— Samuel Johnson

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

— Samuel Johnson

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

— Samuel Johnson

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

— Samuel Johnson

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.

— Samuel Johnson

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

— Samuel Johnson

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true…

— Samuel Johnson

Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such…

— Samuel Johnson

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the…

— Samuel Johnson

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a…

— Samuel Johnson

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with…

— Samuel Johnson

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the…

— Samuel Johnson

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old…

— Samuel Johnson

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age…

— Samuel Johnson

I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude.…

— Samuel Johnson

Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From…

— Samuel Johnson

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second…

— Samuel Johnson

In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…

— Samuel Johnson

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated…

— Samuel Johnson

But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth,…

— Samuel Johnson

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

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire…

— Samuel Johnson

The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it,…

— Samuel Johnson

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether…

— Samuel Johnson

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the…

— Samuel Johnson

Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention…

— Samuel Johnson

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have…

— Samuel Johnson

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

— Samuel Johnson

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.

— Samuel Johnson

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

— Samuel Johnson

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…

— Samuel Johnson

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without…

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the…

— 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

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

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic…

— Samuel Johnson

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

— Samuel Johnson