Every man Quotes by Samuel Johnson

To do something is in every man's power.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is of importance to himself.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

— Samuel Johnson

“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down…

— Samuel Johnson

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down…

— Samuel Johnson

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

— Samuel Johnson

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer…

— Samuel Johnson

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with…

— Samuel Johnson

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe,…

— Samuel Johnson

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…

— Samuel Johnson

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste.…

— Samuel Johnson

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;…

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore…

— Samuel Johnson

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…

— Samuel Johnson

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by…

— Samuel Johnson

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily…

— Samuel Johnson

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present…

— Samuel Johnson

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he…

— Samuel Johnson

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

— Samuel Johnson

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate…

— Samuel Johnson

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded…

— 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

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree,…

— 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