Quotes from Samuel Johnson
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
- Samuel Johnson
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
- Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
- Samuel Johnson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- Samuel Johnson
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
- Samuel Johnson
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
- Samuel Johnson
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
- Samuel Johnson
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
- Samuel Johnson
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
- Samuel Johnson