Samuel Johnson Quotes
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No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
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'Enlarge my life with multitude of days!'In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:Hides from himself his state, and shuns to knowThat life protracted is protracted woe.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
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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.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
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The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
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It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
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When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-colored life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toiled after him in vain.
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I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,And glides in modest innocence away.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.