Quotes by Samuel Johnson
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
