Famous Quotes / Samuel Johnson
502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 381. The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
- 382. The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
- 383. The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
- 384. The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
- 385. The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
- 386. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- 387. The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what ple ...
- 388. The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness to ...
- 389. The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
- 390. The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture ...
- 391. The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
- 392. The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the ...
- 393. The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too sle ...
- 394. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illust ...
- 395. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- 396. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- 397. The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
- 398. The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
- 399. The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are f ...
- 400. The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispe ...