Samuel Johnson Quotes
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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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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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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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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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.