Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
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Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
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As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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Round numbers are always false.
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.