Care Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.

— Samuel Johnson

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

— Samuel Johnson

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

— Samuel Johnson

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make…

— Samuel Johnson

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of…

— Samuel Johnson

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide…

— Samuel Johnson

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to…

— Samuel Johnson

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by…

— Samuel Johnson

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we…

— Samuel Johnson

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when…

— Samuel Johnson

1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your…

— 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

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that…

— Samuel Johnson

Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not…

— Samuel Johnson

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state…

— Samuel Johnson

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves,…

— Samuel Johnson

It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of…

— Samuel Johnson

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much…

— Samuel Johnson

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;…

— Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly;…

— Samuel Johnson

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree…

— Samuel Johnson