All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive. Church
- Every man is of importance to himself. Every Man
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. Admit
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Ability
- All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. All
- The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or… Able
- The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only… Act
- Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. Argument
- Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. Any
- A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind. Connected
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it. Better
- Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for… Best
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures… Appear
- I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits Amputated
- Judgment is forced upon us by experience Experience
- We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures Increase
- When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was First Husband
- Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course… Achievement
- Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time… Acquiring
- Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame Accidental
- Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions Always Doubt
- Reason and truth will prevail at last Inspirational
- In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. Bashfulness
- Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom Aged
- I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and… Attempting