Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
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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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'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 man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the boldFall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.
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EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
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An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,And glides in modest innocence away.
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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.
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He was a very good hater.
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God bless you, my dear!
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LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
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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.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies.