Famous Quotes / Samuel Johnson
502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 21. A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
- 22. A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when ...
- 23. A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory ...
- 24. A truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can equally embrace great things and small.
- 25. A vow is a snare for sin.
- 26. A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
- 27. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are sur ...
- 28. Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
- 29. Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with him ...
- 30. Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially fr ...
- 31. Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
- 32. Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- 33. All censure of a man's self if oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
- 34. All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
- 35. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resi ...
- 36. All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
- 37. All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
- 38. Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- 39. Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your fr ...
- 40. Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hangin ...