Time Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

— Samuel Johnson

The future is purchased by the present.

— Samuel Johnson

The future is bought with the present.

— Samuel Johnson

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

— Samuel Johnson

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

— Samuel Johnson

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

— Samuel Johnson

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

— Samuel Johnson

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

— Samuel Johnson

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

— Samuel Johnson

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

— Samuel Johnson

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

— Samuel Johnson

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in…

— Samuel Johnson

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

— Samuel Johnson

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

— Samuel Johnson

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

— Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to…

— Samuel Johnson

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to…

— Samuel Johnson

Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not…

— 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

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration,…

— Samuel Johnson

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which,…

— Samuel Johnson

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these…

— Samuel Johnson

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every…

— Samuel Johnson

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning…

— Samuel Johnson

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,…

— Samuel Johnson

Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention…

— Samuel Johnson

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You…

— Samuel Johnson

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images…

— Samuel Johnson

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience…

— Samuel Johnson

In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of…

— Samuel Johnson

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or…

— Samuel Johnson

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present…

— Samuel Johnson

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

— Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a…

— Samuel Johnson

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no…

— Samuel Johnson

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

— Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

— Samuel Johnson

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

— Samuel Johnson

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment…

— Samuel Johnson

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old…

— Samuel Johnson