A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and… — 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
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
