All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters… Advantage
- Hope is necessary in every condition. Anticipation
- Hope is itself a species of happiness... Anticipation
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to… Business
- There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth. Always Something
- When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life. Life
- Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the… Brilliant
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and… Add
- An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold… Among
- Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. Approbation
- The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. Disputed
- The great source of pleasure is variety. Great
- I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. Any
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to… Back Hereafter
- When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which… Active
- Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears Cosmetics
- No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had Foolish
- Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. Aspire
- There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… Any
- A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has… Additional
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape… Another Profession
- A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption. Corruption
- It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth… Acquisition
- The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his… Always Changing
- A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. End