“Samuel Johnson said, ‘It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. —SAMUEL JOHNSON” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“(“No man but a blockhead ever wrote for any cause but money,” Samuel Johnson said.)” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson — Paras Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .” — David Shields Copy Share Image
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson, he credits their wisdom for his success. "They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson once said that remarrying (and he’s not talking about marrying the same person here, just remarrying) is the “triumph of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
My personal feelings on marriage? Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages - although I could probably say this about any marriage… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
“Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“The essayist and lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson famously once said, ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.’… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
“Keep it simple' wasn't always the right response. Many things that boosted my happiness also added complexity to my life. Having children.… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“The fact that we had independently decided to sweep our apartments on that Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend together, I took… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics',… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Mr. Langton one day asked him [Samuel Johnson] how he had acquired so accurate a knowledge of Latin, in which, I believe,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“People are unrealistically optimistic even when the stakes are high. About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, and this is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress)… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth.… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“After Bailey came Samuel Johnson, His Cantankerousness. Son of a London bookseller, a university dropout, afflicted with depression and what modern doctors… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." ~Samuel Johnson” — Scott Leopold Copy Share Image
“To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the… — Edward M. Hallowell Copy Share Image
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“People are unrealistically optimistic even when the stakes are high. About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, and this is a… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
![“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his…” quote by James Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f19/james-boswell-7136_brighter_in-comparing-these-two-writers-he-samuel_445768.jpg)
![“Mr. Langton one day asked him [Samuel Johnson] how he had acquired so accurate a knowledge of Latin, in which, I believe, he was exceeded by no man of his time; he said, 'My master whipt me very well. Without that, Sir, I should have done nothing.' He told Mr. Langton, that while Hunter was…” quote by James Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/06b/james-boswell-7136_brothers-and-sisters_mr-langton-one-day-asked-him-samuel-john_491021.jpg)
![“[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!” quote by Hester Lynch Piozzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd9/hester-lynch-piozzi-27737_accustomed_samuel-johnson-s-conversation-was-by-muc_568232.jpg)
