The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney. — 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
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular… — 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
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — 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
Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. — 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
