502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 1. 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
- 2. A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore o ...
- 3. A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
- 4. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- 5. A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not de ...
- 6. A fallible being will fail somewhere.
- 7. A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
- 8. A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a hor ...
- 9. A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is ...
- 10. A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of cu ...
- 11. A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for ...
- 12. A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ h ...
- 13. A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talk ...
- 14. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- 15. A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.
- 16. A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him littl ...
- 17. A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- 18. A man used to vissicitudes is not easily dejected.
- 19. A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
- 20. A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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