All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human… Approach
- He endearing elegance of female friendship. Elegance
- Security will produce danger. Danger
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other. Advantage
- Suspicion is most often useless pain. Most
- Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. Existence
- There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness. All
- Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Arms
- He who endeavors to please must appear pleased. Appear
- We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our… All
- It is our first duty to serve society. Duty
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a… Acrimonious
- He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. Certainty
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. Able
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. Curiosity
- It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added,… Added
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. Arrogant
- Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. Dangerous
- He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. Cannot Complain
- They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it. Clamour
- They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private… All
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… Author
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only… Adventitious
- We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and… All
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without… All