Quotes from Samuel Johnson
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
- Samuel Johnson
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
- Samuel Johnson
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
- Samuel Johnson
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
- Samuel Johnson
As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
- Samuel Johnson
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
- Samuel Johnson
When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
- Samuel Johnson
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- Samuel Johnson
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
- Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson