Quotes from Samuel Johnson
Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
- Samuel Johnson
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- Samuel Johnson
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
- Samuel Johnson
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.
- Samuel Johnson
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
- Samuel Johnson
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
- Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
- Samuel Johnson
Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.
- Samuel Johnson
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
- Samuel Johnson
To be of no Church is dangerous.
- Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
- Samuel Johnson