Samuel Johnson Quotes
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An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,And glides in modest innocence away.
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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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LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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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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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
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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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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
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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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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
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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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Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
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The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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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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It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
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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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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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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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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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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.