All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the… Calamities
- The process is the reality. Inspirational
- We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Avarice
- Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . . Cannot Speak
- The business of life is to go forward. Business
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of… Cause
- This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to. Ask
- A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place. Grows
- None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence. Cannot Influence
- A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. Author
- What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. Better
- To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day Beat
- As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for… Course
- Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong… Benefit
- There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey. Ambush
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil… All
- Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is… All
- Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm… Amusement
- To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue. Abstinence
- If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our… Count
- He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Adorn
- Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. Beholder
- As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. Direct
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his… Any
- Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other… All