Life Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Life protracted is protracted woe.

— Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward.

— Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety.

— Samuel Johnson

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

— Samuel Johnson

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

— Samuel Johnson

“Once a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”

— Samuel Johnson

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

— Samuel Johnson

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

— Samuel Johnson

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

— Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

— Samuel Johnson

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

— Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

— Samuel Johnson

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

— Samuel Johnson

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

— Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

— Samuel Johnson

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

— Samuel Johnson

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste…

— Samuel Johnson

As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.

— Samuel Johnson

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

— Samuel Johnson

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of…

— Samuel Johnson

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are…

— Samuel Johnson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man,…

— Samuel Johnson

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and…

— Samuel Johnson

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal…

— Samuel Johnson

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized…

— Samuel Johnson

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:…

— Samuel Johnson

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild…

— Samuel Johnson

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and…

— Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and…

— 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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when…

— Samuel Johnson

“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some…

— 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

By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,…

— 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

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

— 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

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or…

— Samuel Johnson

“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion…

— Samuel Johnson

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation…

— Samuel Johnson