All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Desire
- Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. Alcohol
- Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. Evidence
- Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. Cities
- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. Advertisement
- So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. Action
- Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. Admit
- That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. All
- The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. Arise
- The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Flight
- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Chief
- The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. Appear
- There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. Employed
- There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to… Both
- There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Alcohol
- There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. Amiable
- Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. Adversaries
- When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Carpe Diem
- When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. Fit
- All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,… Advantage
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. Achievement
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than… Cannot Spend
- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;… Cannon
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made… Anticipation
- It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring… Acquiring