Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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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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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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A jest breaks no bones.
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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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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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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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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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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.