Quotes By Samuel Johnson BACK
- Fraud and falsehood only dread
- None but a fool worries
- No man was ever great
- There must always be a
- The next best thing to
- Whoever commits a fraud is
- The true measure of a
- Wine makes a man better
- He who has so little
- Curiosity is one of the
- Patriotism is the last refuge
- Kindness is in our power
- It matters not how a
- Prejudice not being founded on
- The majority have no other
- Language is the dress of
- Money and time are the
- The future is purchased by
- Nothing will ever be attempted
- The really happy woman is
- My dear friend clear your
- Exert your talents and distinguish
- Men more frequently require to
- A decent provision for the
- Sorrow is the mere rust
- Books like friends should be
- Advice is seldom welcome Those
- If you want to be
- What ever the motive for
- We have less reason to
- Truth allows no choice
- Never trust your tongue when
- The business of life is
- A mans mind grows narrow
- He that will enjoy the
- Each persons work is always
- We are more pained by
- Curiosity is the thirst of
- A person loves to review
- If you are idle be
- What we hope ever to
- All intellectual improvement arises from
- When making your choice in
- A translator is to be
- Nature has given women so
- No one is much pleased
- Power is not sufficient evidence
- All travel has its advantages
- There can be no friendship
- The world is like a
- Love is the wisdom of
- Nature never gives everything at
- Health is certainly more valuable
- Exercise is labor without weariness
- When men come to like
- Disease generally begins that equality
- He that fails in his
- When once the forms of
- You need a good editor
- Ignorance when it is voluntary
- Prosperitys right hand is industry
- Every man is rich or
- No government power can be
- Hope itself is a species
- Getting money is not all
- Our aspirations are our possibilities
- When there is no hope
- You can never be wise
- A wise man will make
- A little knowledge is a
- Slavery is now nowhere more
- He who waits to do
- Those who do not feel
- When any calamity is suffered
- Bachelors have consciences married men
- To preserve health is a
- If your determination is fixed
- You hesitate to stab me
- Life affords no higher pleasure
- One of the disadvantages of
- Almost every man wastes part
- Few things are impossible to
- Grief is a species of
- Integrity without knowledge is weak
- No man will be a
- It is better to suffer
- Shame arises from the fear
- Courage is the greatest of
- It is better to live
- When a man knows he
- Men who stand in the
- Knowledge is of two kinds
- Whoever thinks of going to
- Curiosity is in great and
- Agriculture not only gives riches
- From thee great God we
- I never desire to converse
- Courage is reckoned the greatest
- Gratitude is a fruit of
- Books have always a secret
- I know not any crime
- He that outlives a wife
- A horse that can count
- Order is a lovely nymph
- At seventy seven it is
- How small of all that
- The disturbers of our happiness
- Your aspirations are your possibilities
- A man who both spends
- Knock the t off the
- Life is but short no
- Life affords no higher pleasure
- As he that lives longest
- He that embarks on the
- Without frugality none can be
- Power is gradually stealing away
- Many of our miseries are
- The longer we live the
- Our minds like our bodies
- Life consists not of a
- Deceit and falsehood whatever conveniences
- Self confidence is the first
- Dont think of retiring from
- Mans chief merit consists in
- The only end of writing
- It is certain that success
- No people can be great
- There will always be a
- There is no crime more
- Resentment is a union of
- Pleasure is very seldom found
- Life is a progress from
- The number of such as
- The misery of man proceeds
- Liberty is to the lowest
- The safe and general antidote
- It is not from reason
- It is a most mortifying
- To hear complaints is wearisome
- He that condemns himself to
- In all pointed sentences some
- Dictionaries are like watches the
- Great works are performed not
- Repentance however difficult to be
- Every man is rich or
- Slander is the revenge of
- How small of all that
- Language is the dress of
- The natural flights of the
- There is certainly no greater
- A successful author is equally
- Women have two weapons cosmetics
- Revenge is an act of
- No man can taste the
- Guilt once harbored in the
- Assertion is not argument to
- Pound St Pauls Church into
- To strive with difficulties and
- He that travels in theory
- The fortitude which has encountered
- He that is already corrupt
- Criticism though dignified from the
- The triumph of hope over
- Shakespeare never had more than 6
- Disease generally begins that equality
- I have always said the
- There are two types of
- In general those parents have
- The synonyme of usury is
- To neglect at any time
- Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm
- He that would be superior
- Sir if you wish to
- What a strange narrowness of
- Authors and lovers always suffer
- To a poet nothing can
- The use of travelling is
- Wine gives a man nothing
- Words are but the signs
- Love is only one of
- A man will turn over
- Subordination tends greatly to human
- The happiest part of a
- A man ought to read
- There lurks perhaps in every
- Of all noises I think
- The vicious count their years
- Abuse is often of service
- It is advantageous to an
- The use of traveling is
- Music is the only sensual
- Modern writers are the moons
- It is better to suffer
- Between falsehood and useless truth
- In most ages many countries
- Fear is implanted in us
- Hope is itself a species
- Just praise is only a
- A man who has not
- He who praises everybody praises
- Promise large promise is the
- We are long before we
- I would rather be attacked
- Some people have a foolish
- The love of life is
- I am not so lost
- To fix the thoughts by
- It is indeed certain that
- A mere literary man is
- Life to be worthy of
- Parents are by no means
- While an author is yet
- As the mind must govern
- We go from anticipation to
- A wise man is cured
- Whoever envies another confesses his
- Poverty has in large cities
- The mental disease of the
- Every man thinks meanly of
- It is common to overlook
- Hunger is never delicate
- A book should teach us
- It very seldom happens to
- Pity is not natural to
- Every man has something to
- Such seems to be the
- Life protracted is protracted woe
- In the motive lies the
- Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
- A writer who obtains his
- Contempt is a kind of
- No man can fall into
- An infallible characteristic of meanness
- It is very common for
- A blaze first pleases and
- Dishonor waits on perfidy A
- Distance either of time or
- Fear is implanted in us
- He that is much flattered
- The dangers gather as the
- Gratitude is a species of
- No man hates him at
- Before dinner men meet with
- Indolence is the devils cushion
- To buried merit rise the
- All power of fancy over
- Employment and hardships prevent melancholy
- In sovereignty there are no
- See nations slowly wise and
- The power of punishment is
- The resolution of the combat
- Riches seldom make their owners
- Wealth is nothing in itself
- Quotation is a good thing
- In all pleasures hope is
- It is observed of gold
- The wise man applauds he
- There are few minds to
- Judgment is forced upon us
- Reason and truth will prevail
- A vow is a snare
- Misery and shame are nearly
- Laws teach us to know
- All wonder is the effect
- He that wishes to see
- If we estimate dignity by
- The first step to greatness
- With an unquiet mind neither
- Perhaps man is the only
- The highest panegyric therefore that
- Virtue is too often merely
- Such are the vicissitudes of
- That observation which is called
- Apologies are seldom of any
- There is scarcely any writer
- Every old man complains of
- Fine clothes are good only
- Reason will by degrees submit
- The superiority of some men
- 1 Turn all care out of
- Every man who attacks my
- The peculiar doctrine of Christianity
- To prevent evil is the
- It is commonly a weak
- The hour of reformation is
- If a man does not
- Teas proper use is to
- Club An assembly of good
- Memory is like all other
- The Irish are a fair
- Your manuscript is both good
- What is written without effort
- People need to be reminded
- Few of those who fill
- The two offices of memory
- Whatever enlarges hope will also
- I had rather see the
- No man is a hypocrite
- Some desire is necessary to
- A man who uses a
- To keep your secret is
- When any fit of gloominess
- There are in every age
- The true art of memory
- A contempt of the monuments
- The chief art of learning
- A man is in general
- A writer only begins a
- As I know more of
- I had done all that
- We seldom learn the true
- Abstinence is as easy to
- Curiosity is one of the
- In order that all men
- No man will be found
- The joy of life is
- A fishing rod is a
- A man seldom thinks with
- A man may be so
- Hope is necessary in every
- To be happy at home
- No man was more foolish
- Want of tenderness is want
- It may be observed in
- There are minds so impatient
- Some read for style and
- What is easy is seldom
- Happiness said he must be
- Why sir Sherry is dull
- Praise like gold and diamonds
- To be free it is
- I am a hardened and
- The law is the last
- Of the blessings set before
- Dont tell me of deception
- Wit will never make a
- It is the just doom
- The mathematicians are well acquainted
- The business of life summons
- A quibble is to Shakespeare
- Nothing is difficult when gain
- Classical quotation is the parole
- The chief glory of every
- The authour who imitates his
- Many useful and valuable books
- A man who exposes himself
- An author places himself uncalled
- In this work are exhibited
- The art of the writer
- Those authors who would find
- To read write and converse
- There are three distinct kind
- Languages are the pedigree of
- Those authors are to be
- There is nothing more dreadful
- The duty of criticism is
- All truth is valuable and
- Truth has no gradations nothing
- A transition from an authors
- A voyage to the moon
- If a madman were to
- Lichfield England Swallows certainly sleep
- It is scarcely credible to
- By seeing London I have
- Many things difficult to design
- Deviation from Nature is deviation
- It is a hopeless endeavour
- He that hopes to look
- There is nothing which has
- To have the management of
- The habit of looking on
- To mean understandings it is
- Commerce can never be at
- Commerce however we may please
- It requires but little acquaintance
- Wisdom and virtue are by
- There is a frightful interval
- Always Sir set a high
- There is nothing Sir too
- Whatever you have spend less
- No one ever became great
- Example is always more efficacious
- That is the happiest conversation
- It ought to be the
- Deign on the passing world
- He who does not mind
- Round numbers are always false
- The eye of the mind
- The future is bought with
- The greatest part of a
- It was the maxim I
- There must always be some
- Bounty always receives part of
- We are told that the
- A fellow will hack half
- Those who attain any excellence
- Sir sorrow is inherent in
- We may take Fancy for
- Remember that nothing will supply
- Lexicographer a writer of dictionaries
- Read over your compositions and
- No money is better spent
- I am always sorry when
- Advice as it always gives
- Of riches it is not
- What I gained by being
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and
- Cruel with guilt and daring
- Wine gives great pleasure and
- No man but a blockhead
- Of the blessings set before
- The Church does not superstitiously
- A generous and elevated mind
- The true genius is a
- There is no observation more
- I would advise you Sir
- Players Sir I look on
- Sir I have no objection
- Wine gives great pleasure and
- Poetry is the art of
- To love their country has
- All the arguments which are
- Wise married women dont trouble
- No cause more frequently produces
- Sir I did not count
- There are indeed in the
- The great effect of friendship
- In order that all men
- It is better a man
- The feeling of friendship is
- Almost all absurdity of conduct
- Composition is for the most
- Excellence in any department can
- If pleasure was not followed
- Cucumber should be well sliced
- It is unpleasing to represent
- When a man is tired
- Do not accustom yourself to
- He was dull in a
- The usual fortune of complaint
- Sir I have found you
- Philosophy has often attempted to
- It is not possible to
- Worth seeing yes but not
- To have the management of
- Most men think indistinctly and
- Discord generally operates in little
- Those that have done nothing
- Pride is a vice which
- The common people do not
- Depend upon it sir it
- In youth it is common
- Men know that women are
- Whatever is formed for long
- Marriage has many pains but
- There are some works which
- Always Sir set a high
- If a man begins to
- Every man has a right
- Diffidence may check resolution and
- Books are faithful repositories which
- If the man who turnips
- He that would travel for
- Idleness and timidity often despair
- Yet it is necessary to
- Nothing can be truly great
- In solitude we have our
- It is a maxim that
- If we require more perfection
- It is generally allowed that
- Most minds are the slaves
- It is no matter what
- He that resigns his peace
- Life will not bear refinement
- Advice as it always gives
- Politics are now nothing more
- Among the many inconsistencies which
- Consider what importance to society
- Such is the uncertainty of
- Affectation is to be always
- There is no book so
- Melancholy indeed should be diverted
- Much is due to those
- Plenty is the original cause
- It is more reasonable to
- The supreme end of education
- This man Chesterfield I thought
- No member of a society
- Sir they are a race
- There is something in obstinacy
- As the greatest liar tells
- Marriage is the strictest tie
- Diligence in employments of less
- The imitator treads a beaten
- When desperate ills demand a
- A certain amount of distrust
- A tavern chair is the
- All envy is proportionate to
- I wish there were some
- Sir there is no settling
- The lust of gold succeeds
- Guilt has always its horrors
- Like an image in a
- The history of mankind is
- A man should be careful
- Hypocrisy is the necessary burden
- Every man is or hopes
- Gloomy calm of idle vacancy
- Jesting often only proves a
- Of all the griefs that
- Nothing is more common than
- London the needy villains general
- Luxury so far as it
- A good wife is like
- I believe marriages would in
- It is one of the
- As the faculty of writing
- Avarice is a uniform and
- It is surely very narrow
- You despise a man for
- People in general do not
- It is astonishing that any
- He that pines with hunger
- Where no man thinks himself
- He who fails to please
- No knowledge is useless with
- Celestial wisdom calms the mind
- Time is of all modes
- As any custom is disused
- Nothing concentrates ones mind so
- Poetry cannot be translation
- It is our first duty
- The worst evils are those
- A simile to be perfect
- The imaginations excited by the
- We love to expect and
- Man alone is born crying
- The return of my birthday
- Nothing flatters a man as
- Friendship like love is destroyed
- To be happy at home
- It is more from carelessness
- Actions are visible though motives
- The mind is never satisfied
- The happiest conversation is that
- Being in a ship is
- It is however reasonable to
- Resolve not to be poor
- Allow children to be happy
- I have always considered it
- A man of genius has
- A fly Sir may sting
- The advice that is wanted
- It matters not how a
- You teach your daughters the
- Life is not long and
- Nothing is more hopeless than
- There are charms made only
- Human life is everywhere a
- Leisure and curiosity might soon
- Paradise Lost is a book
- I also admit that there
- To strive with difficulties and
- We are inclined to believe
- Where grief is fresh any
- I am a great friend
- Few enterprises of great labor
- It is better that some
- No place affords a more
- Nobody can write the life
- The wretched have no compassion
- When a man says he
- Adversity leads us to think
- Books that you may carry
- Everything that enlarges the sphere
- I have found men to
- I look upon every day
- I will be conquered I
- I would be loath to
- It generally happens that assurance
- Let me smile with the
- Prepare for death if here
- So many objections may be
- Some desire is necessary to
- That we must all die
- The vanity of being known
- The world is seldom what
- There are few ways in
- There are goods so opposed
- There is indeed nothing that
- Treating your adversary with respect
- You cannot spend money in
- Small debts are like small
- Such is the state of
- It is not true that
- By taking a second wife
- Depend upon it that if
- To be idle and to
- It is dangerous for mortal
- Surely a long life must
- There are few things that
- To get a name can
- What makes all doctrines plain
- Yet it is necessary to
- We never do anything consciously
- No weakness of the human
- In a Mans Letters you
- I do not care to
- You raise your voice when
- Dont Sir accustom yourself to
- Mankind have a great aversion
- While grief is fresh every
- Oats A grain which in
- He that reads and grows
- Quotation is the highest compliment
- I have already enjoyed too
- men do not suspect faults
- Distance has the same effect
- Wickedness is always easier than
- That kind of life is
- Enlarge my life with multitude
- And panting Time toild after
- When I was as you
- So different are the colors
- A man may write at
- You may translate books of
- Advertisements are now so numerous
- Change is not made without
- Courage is a quality so
- There is less flogging in
- He that accepts protection stipulates
- Sir you must not neglect
- If we will have the
- Idleness is often covered by
- Since every man is obliged
- He who would bring home
- What we read with inclination
- Life is barren enough surely
- Reproof should not exhaust its
- All severity that does not
- Every period of life is
- Philosophers there are who try
- No man can enjoy happiness
- Health is so necessary to
- Hope is necessary in every
- Knowledge always desires increase it
- Life is a pill which
- Learn that the present hour
- Reflect that life like every
- The dramas laws the dramas
- In lifes last scene what
- Catch then oh catch the
- A man finds in the
- Rain is good for vegetables
- To hear complaints with patience
- For patience sovreign oer transmuted
- In all evils which admit
- Milton Madam was a genius
- The essence of poetry is
- Of all kinds of credulity
- I have all my life
- He that teaches us anything
- Evil is uncertain in the
- Almost all the moral good
- Greece appears to be the
- The size of a mans
- Youth enters the world with
- He that pursues fame with
- When once a man has
- All theory is against free
- He is not only dull
- When speculation has done its
- It is indeed at home
- The violence of war admits
- Much may be made of
- To a people warlike and
- The applause of a single
- The certainty that life cannot
- He who expects much will
- The pleasure of expecting enjoyment
- That all who are happy
- Pride is seldom delicate it
- More knowledge may be gained
- Claret is the liquor for
- Golf is a game in
- Advertisements are now so numerous
- Questioning is not the mode
- Age is rarely despised but
- The world will never be
- I hate mankind for I
- It is the great privilege
- Nature makes us poor only
- This mournful truth is everywhere
- Poverty is often concealed in
- He that thinks he can
- Age looks with anger on
- I am very fond of
- One of the amusements of
- Bravery has no place where
- High people sir are the
- The ambition of superior sensibility
- Long customs are not easily
- Be not too hasty to
- Men have solicitude about fame
- It is necessary to the
- Flattery pleases very generally In
- Happiness is enjoyed only in
- The fiction of happiness is
- A man may be very
- If a man could say
- It is not uncommon to
- Hypocrisy is the necessary burden
- Books without the knowledge of
- He was so generally civil
- I would advise no man
- In lapidary inscriptions a man
- No mind is much employed
- Of all the griefs that
- If the abuse be enormous
- When female minds are embittered
- That friendship may be at
- As any action or posture
- The most Heterogeneous ideas are
- It is very strange and
- Our desires always increase with
- You are much surer that
- God Himself sir does not
- Language is only the instrument
- Men who cannot deceive others
- Tomorrow is an old deceiver
- Those writers who lie on
- In traveling a man must
- Let him that desires to
- Pleasure that is obtained by
- In bed we laugh in
- He endearing elegance of female
- Security will produce danger
- Friendship is seldom lasting but
- Suspicion is most often useless
- Labor if it were not
- We are easily shocked by
- Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven
- Whatever withdraws us from the
- Get together a hundred or
- These papers of the day
- Occupation alone is happiness
- Present opportunities are neglected and
- Pleasure itself is not a
- A man guilty of poverty
- None can be pleased without
- The first years of man
- What is twice read is
- To paint things as they
- He that never labors may
- To be of no Church
- As every one is pleased
- To tell your own secrets
- Everybody knows worse of himself
- The poor and the busy
- Conjecture as to things useful
- Let observation with extensive view
- The best part of every
- The man who is asked
- I remember a passage in
- In my early years I
- The arguments for purity of
- There is a certain race
- Every man however hopeless his
- Shakespeare never had six lines
- We are perpetually moralists but
- To make dictionaries is dull
- Was there ever yet anything
- His most frequent ailment was
- I love the acquaintance of
- The civilities of the great
- The expense is damnable the
- Whoever wishes to attain an
- But it is evident that
- New things are made familiar
- It is mans own fault
- Hunting was the labour of
- Sir if a man has
- Waste cannot be accurately told
- Had I learned to fiddle
- Good sense alone is a
- Human experience which is constantly
- Nay Sir those who write
- Among the numerous requisites that
- Whoever desires for his writings
- The diversion of baiting an
- Critics ought never to be
- The animadversions of critics are
- There are certain topicks which
- When a poet mentions the
- General irregularities are known in
- It is however not necessary
- Every man speaks and writes
- Those who will not take
- Many leave the labours of
- If an author be supposed
- The authors that in any
- All argument is against it
- Of those that spin out
- Ignorance is mere privation by
- There is no idleness by
- Babies do not want to
- There should be a stated
- Happiness consists in the multiplicity
- A lexicographer a writer of
- The life of a conscientious
- John Wesleys conversation is good
- Men are like stone jugs
- An old friend never can
- An Italian philosopher said that
- Never speak of a man
- Life is short The sooner
- The insolence of wealth will
- No man is without some
- By forbearing to do what
- If in an actor there
- Admiration must be continued by
- Advice is offensive it shows
- Vanity is so frequently the
- Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences
- Among the numerous stratagems by
- Cautious age suspects the flattering
- There is nothing against which
- Ladies stock and tend your
- Superfluous lags the veteran on
- Locke whom there is no
- The round of a passionate
- In civilized society external advantages
- In the condition of men
- He that applauds him who
- To build is to be
- A successful author is equally
- Genius now and then produces
- People may be taken in
- Of a thousand shavers two
- Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure
- History can be formed from
- The business of the biographer
- The parallel circumstances and kindred
- Admiration and love are like
- The booksellers are generous liberal
- To forget or pretend to
- Differences we know are never
- The general remedy of those
- There is such a difference
- I do not envy a
- There may be community of
- The botanist looks upon the
- The equity of Providence has
- Whatever advantage we snatch beyond
- Beauty without kindness dies unenjoyed
- Books says Lord Bacon can
- Care that is once enterd
- Scarce any man becomes eminently
- As to the Christian religion
- Sir there is no end
- Critics like the rest of
- The care of the critic
- It seems to be remarkable
- The time will come to
- The uncertainty of death is
- When a friend is carried
- When we see our enemies
- All to whom want is
- Economy is the parent of
- The mere power of saving
- The prospect of penury in
- We frequently fall into error
- Who left nothing of authorship
- No evil is insupportable but
- Still we lovebr The evil
- Complaints are vain we will
- He that is pushing his
- None of the projects or
- Nothing odd will do long
- From Bard to Bard the
- When first the college rolls
- Year chases year decay pursues
- Norway too has noble prospects
- His virtues walked their narrow
- But grant the virtues of
- There may be other reasons
- If the guardian or the
- Criticism is a study by
- It is incident to physicians
- A lawyer has no business
- Few moments are more pleasing
- Do not hope wholly to
- Among the calamities of war
- Those who suppress freedom always
- What is the reason that
- Now that you are going
- Surely it is much easier
- He that can swim needs
- The labor of rising from
- If lawyers were to undertake
- Every cold empirick when his
- Man is a transitory being
- Domestic discord is not inevitably
- Inquiries into the heart are
- A newswriter is a man
- In Shakespeares plays the mourner
- In discussing these exceptions from
- Difficult do you call it
- To wipe all tears from
- A student may easily exhaust
- The joy of life is
- A gentleman who had been
- Whisky making is the art
- to write and to live
- Every man is prompted by
- Nobody can be taught faster
- We often look with indifference
- True enjoyments also keep people
- Youth enters the world with
- To proportion the eagerness of
- Quack A boastful pretender to
- A man in a jail
- Among other pleasing errors of
- Ease a neutral state between
- Excise A hateful tax levied
- Expectation improperly indulged in must
- Friendship may well deserve the
- I would injure no man
- If useless thoughts could be
- Ignorance when it is voluntary
- It is strange that there
- Many need no other provocation
- Merit rather enforces respect than
- Patron One who countenances supports
- Pleasure is very seldom found
- So willing is every man
- The cure for the greatest
- The safe and general antidote
- There is in this world
- There is nothing so minute
- Towering is the confidence of
- We suffer equal pain from
- Whatever is proposed it is
- Prejudice is a great time
- Most men are unwilling to
- He who attempts to do
- Pointed axioms and acute replies
- To be prejudiced is always
- A family is a little
- The whole of life is
- As long as one lives
- Unintelligible language is a lantern
- We often need reminding even
- As pride sometimes is hid
- Nothing is more common than
- It is to be steadily
- The most fatal disease of
- No man should attempt to
- There are occasions on which
- Were it not for imagination
- He who endeavors to please
- We all live upon the
- It is our first duty
- He is no wise man
- No degree of knowledge attainable
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- Religion informs us that misery
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- How few of his friends
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- So scanty is our present
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- Social sorrow loses half its
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- He that accepts protection stipulates
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- The appearance and retirement of
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- Curiosity is in great and
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