Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
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
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
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
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
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“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
“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
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
