502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 341. Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt ...
- 342. Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- 343. Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equa ...
- 344. Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hangi ...
- 345. Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
- 346. Small debts are like small gun shots; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely ...
- 347. So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and ...
- 348. Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary morta ...
- 349. Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit tho ...
- 350. Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit tho ...
- 351. Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
- 352. Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. ...
- 353. Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
- 354. Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
- 355. Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no othe ...
- 356. Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought to ...
- 357. Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself ...
- 358. Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
- 359. Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things ...
- 360. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many ...
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