All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own… Advice
- Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice. Advice
- Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it. Advice
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be… Advice
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But… Advice
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… Accurate
- There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own… Advice
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because… Accusation
- No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. Advice
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow… Abhor
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener… Accommodation
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. Affords
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.… Age
- Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained Any
- Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little Done Little
- Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her. Country
- The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. Applauds
- There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of… Convenience
- He that never thinks can never be wise. Inspirational
- If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. Doe
- Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. Equivalent
- It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money.… Clear
- Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze. Breeze
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. Able
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,… Age