Samuel Johnson Quotes
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But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the boldFall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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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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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
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There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
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CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
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A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it.A feeble government, eluded Laws,A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles,And all the maladies of stinking states.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
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He was a very good hater.
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.