How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can… — 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
Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while… — 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
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — 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
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another... — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit. — 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
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . . — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make… — 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
I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — 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
