Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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A jest breaks no bones.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.