All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. Hope
- The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. Down
- There are charms made only for distant admiration. Admiration
- He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. Brightness
- Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. Endured
- It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. Compared
- It is better to live rich than to die rich. Better
- Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. Advances
- No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. Better
- Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. Book
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Composition
- There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. Alcohol
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Conquer
- We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Atheism
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Book
- When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. Any
- Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. Any
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep… Acquaintance
- A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. Amusement
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Education
- A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Dinner
- A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. Always Conscious
- Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. Advantage
- He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Anything Else
- He who praises everybody, praises nobody. Criticism