Might Quotes by Samuel Johnson

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

— Samuel Johnson

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

— Samuel Johnson

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

— Samuel Johnson

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

— Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that,…

— Samuel Johnson

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey…

— Samuel Johnson

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

— Samuel Johnson

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a…

— Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if…

— Samuel Johnson

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study…

— Samuel Johnson

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might…

— Samuel Johnson

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things…

— Samuel Johnson

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at…

— Samuel Johnson

When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a…

— Samuel Johnson

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and…

— Samuel Johnson

We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously.…

— 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

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well…

— Samuel Johnson

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey…

— 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

Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly…

— Samuel Johnson