Famous Quotes / Samuel Johnson
502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 401. The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general ...
- 402. The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
- 403. The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from ...
- 404. The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. B ...
- 405. The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- 406. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- 407. The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
- 408. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may b ...
- 409. The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- 410. The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to discl ...
- 411. The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- 412. The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
- 413. The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are imm ...
- 414. The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
- 415. Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full mea ...
- 416. There are charms made only for distance admiration.
- 417. There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
- 418. There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that w ...
- 419. There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
- 420. There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: W ...