Quotes from Samuel Johnson
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Samuel Johnson
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
- Samuel Johnson
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
- Samuel Johnson
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
- Samuel Johnson
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
- Samuel Johnson
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- Samuel Johnson
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment
- Samuel Johnson
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.
- Samuel Johnson
Exercise is labor without weariness.
- Samuel Johnson