All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to… Advertising
- Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the… Benevolence
- The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. Absence
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a… Animates
- We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more… Avarice
- I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. Cards
- The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today Day
- Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate. Darkly
- Art hath an enemy called ignorance. Art
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds… Add
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or… Bark
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between… Compare
- There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this… Answer
- Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. Aristotle
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,… Critic
- Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. Funny
- Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it. Charged
- False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken… Always Busy
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… Abilities
- Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. Amplifies
- I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American. All
- Nature never gives everything at once. Funny
- Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. Ant
- No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. Borrowing
- Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot. Blessing