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Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is man’s own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Tea’s proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
More knowledge may be gained of a man’s real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you’ll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one (Samuel Johnson Quotes)