Business Quotes by Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward.

— Samuel Johnson

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

— Samuel Johnson

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

— Samuel Johnson

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

— Samuel Johnson

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

— Samuel Johnson

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

— Samuel Johnson

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we…

— Samuel Johnson

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with…

— Samuel Johnson

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

— Samuel Johnson

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his…

— Samuel Johnson

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

— Samuel Johnson

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is…

— Samuel Johnson

It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with…

— Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no…

— Samuel Johnson

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her…

— Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who…

— Samuel Johnson

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion,…

— Samuel Johnson

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while…

— Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring…

— Samuel Johnson

The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed…

— Samuel Johnson

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the…

— Samuel Johnson

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of…

— Samuel Johnson

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and…

— Samuel Johnson

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

— Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

— Samuel Johnson

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect…

— Samuel Johnson

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

— Samuel Johnson

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of…

— Samuel Johnson

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

— Samuel Johnson

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but…

— 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

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and…

— Samuel Johnson