More Samuel Johnson Quotes

1. A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with ...
   
2. A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end an ...
   
3. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude o ...
   
4. A man may be so much of everything that he is noth ...
   
5. A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by hims ...
   
6. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him ...
   
7. Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would b ...
   
8. Adversity has ever been considered the state in wh ...
   
9. Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the im ...
   
10. Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He ...
    
11. Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be t ...
    
12. An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ...
    
13. An intellectual improvement arises from leisure. ...
    
14. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man ric ...
    
15. As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, a ...
    
16. Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers o ...
    
17. Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the ...
    
18. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men ...
    
19. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain char ...
    
20. Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better ...
    
21. Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your trouble ...
    
22. Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as ...
    
23. Don't think of retiring from the world until the w ...
    
24. ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular in ...
    
25. Every man has a right to utter what he thinks trut ...
    
26. Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot b ...
    
27. Every quotation contributes something to the stabi ...
    
28. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. ...
    
29. Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges o ...
    
30. Great works are performed not by strength but by p ...
    
31. Grief is a species of idleness. ...
    
32. He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the gr ...
    
33. He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ...
    
34. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhap ...
    
35. Hope is necessary in every condition. ...
    
36. Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps ...
    
37. I am always sorry when any language is lost, becau ...
    
38. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of th ...
    
39. I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged ...
    
40. I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to en ...
    
41. I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do no ...
    
42. I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I kn ...
    
43. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he adv ...
    
44. If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solita ...
    
45. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth ...
    
46. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, a ...
    
47. It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to co ...
    
48. It is better to live rich than to die rich. ...
    
49. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and ha ...
    
50. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. T ...
    
51. Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is ...
    
52. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourse ...
    
53. Language is only the instrument of science, and wo ...
    
54. Language is the dress of thought. ...
    
55. Learn that the present hour alone is man's. ...
    
56. Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labo ...
    
57. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy thems ...
    
58. Men are wise in proportion not to their experience ...
    
59. Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. ...
    
60. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money ...
    
61. No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. ...
    
62. No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough ...
    
63. No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man ...
    
64. No mind is much employed upon the present recollec ...
    
65. No place affords a more striking conviction of the ...
    
66. Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible ob ...
    
67. Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given ...
    
68. Of all noises, I think music is the least disagree ...
    
69. Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure t ...
    
70. Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survi ...
    
71. Our aspirations are our possibilities. ...
    
72. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kind ...
    
73. Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johns ...
    
74. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ...
    
75. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought o ...
    
76. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ...
    
77. Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet ...
    
78. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend l ...
    
79. Round numbers are always false. ...
    
80. Self confidence is the first requisite to great un ...
    
81. Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has ...
    
82. Such is the common process of marriage. A youth an ...
    
83. That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that ...
    
84. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind ...
    
85. The Irish are a fair people - they never speak wel ...
    
86. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. ...
    
87. The supreme end of education is expert discernment ...
    
88. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone ...
    
89. The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that ...
    
90. The world is not yet exhaused let me see something ...
    
91. There are few minds to which tyranny is not deligh ...
    
92. There are, in every age, new errors to be rectifie ...
    
93. There can be no friendship without confidence, and ...
    
94. There is no observation more frequently made by su ...
    
95. There will always be a part, and always a very lar ...
    
96. To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of ...
    
97. To hear complaints with patience, even when compla ...
    
98. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, ...
    
99. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not kn ...
    
100. We are long before we are convinced that happiness ...
     
101. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship ...
     
102. What is written without effort is in general read ...
     
103. What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn fir ...
     
104. When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight ...
     
105. When I was as you are now, towering in the confide ...
     
106. When making your choice in life, do not neglect to ...
     
107. When once a man has made celebrity necessary to hi ...
     
108. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only ...
     
109. Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do no ...
     
110. You must have taken great pains, sir; you could no ...
     
111. You raise your voice when you should reinforce you ...
     
112. You teach your daugthers the diameters of the plan ...
     
113. Your aspirations are your possibilities. ...
     
114. Your manuscript is both good and original, but the ...