Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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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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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
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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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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character as an author, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.
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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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There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, 'His memory is going.'
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Philips, whose touch harmonious could removeThe pangs of guilty power and hapless love!Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more;Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before;Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine,Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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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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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
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OATS - A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
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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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God bless you, my dear!
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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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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!