Love Quotes by Samuel Johnson

To do something is in every man's power.

— Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward.

— Samuel Johnson

Life protracted is protracted woe.

— Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness...

— Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

— Samuel Johnson

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

— Samuel Johnson

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

— Samuel Johnson

Self-love is a busy prompter.

— Samuel Johnson

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

— Samuel Johnson

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

— Samuel Johnson

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

— Samuel Johnson

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

— Samuel Johnson

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

— Samuel Johnson

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is…

— Samuel Johnson

Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts,…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is…

— Samuel Johnson

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

— Samuel Johnson

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

— Samuel Johnson

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with…

— Samuel Johnson

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love…

— Samuel Johnson

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a…

— Samuel Johnson

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference…

— 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

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough…

— Samuel Johnson

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here…

— Samuel Johnson

Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was…

— Samuel Johnson

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success…

— Samuel Johnson

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated…

— Samuel Johnson

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other,…

— Samuel Johnson

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm…

— Samuel Johnson

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their…

— 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

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,…

— Samuel Johnson

For who is pleased with himself.

— Samuel Johnson

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

— Samuel Johnson

Hope is necessary in every condition.

— Samuel Johnson

Occupation alone is happiness.

— Samuel Johnson