Samuel Johnson Quotes - Page 2

Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
Samuel Johnson
To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.
Samuel Johnson
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy the most extensive desires if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson
He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale.
Samuel Johnson
Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.
Samuel Johnson
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
To be of no Church is dangerous.
Samuel Johnson
Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Samuel Johnson
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
Samuel Johnson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
Samuel Johnson
Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Samuel Johnson
Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Samuel Johnson
Clear your mind of "can't."
Samuel Johnson
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
Samuel Johnson
Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
Samuel Johnson
To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.
Samuel Johnson
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy the most extensive desires if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson
He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale.
Samuel Johnson
Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
Samuel Johnson
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson
Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Samuel Johnson
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
Samuel Johnson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Johnson
It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.
Samuel Johnson
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel Johnson
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
Samuel Johnson
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
Samuel Johnson
Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
I like a good hater.
Samuel Johnson
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 it the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson