Samuel Johnson Quotes

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English Author
Born: Sep 18, 1709
Died: Dec 13, 1784
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. Samuel Johnson
Nature Sunshine Will Enjoy Must Shade He Quit Coolness Brightness
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. Samuel Johnson
Wise Man Wise Man Ambition Aim Favour Exalted Him His Itself Cured Office Cannot Riches Fortune Satisfy
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. Samuel Johnson
Life Success Difficulties Pleasure Seeing Higher Step New Wishes Another Passing Than Affords Forming Them Gratified
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Samuel Johnson
Time Library Man Book Will Half Reading Spent Write Writer Part Over Make Greatest Order Turn
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Samuel Johnson
Happiness Animal Equality Other Pleasure Tends Mere Were Greatly Than Subordination Human Human Happiness Should Enjoyment
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. Samuel Johnson
Life Morning Man Lying He Part Bed Passes Happiest Awake
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson
Best Better Worst True Like None Go Than Dictionaries Expected Quite Cannot Watches
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. Samuel Johnson
Angry Me Man Confidence Degree Every Diminishes Some Attacks Him Makes Am Uneasy Who Therefore Belief Every Man
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. Samuel Johnson
Truth Knowledge Wise Man Will Rich Spend He Between Make Falsehood Gold Difference Cannot Which Little Useless Apply
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Samuel Johnson
Man Rich Every Proportion Between His According Poor Every Man Desires
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. Samuel Johnson
Love Friendship Love Is Long Increased Though Destroyed Absence Like May Short
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Samuel Johnson
Complaint More Excite Contempt Than Pity Fortune Usual
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Samuel Johnson
Happiness Man Wife Nothing He Himself Always Proud His Source Flatters Much
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. Samuel Johnson
Good You Money Luxury Giving Spend Spending More Make Industry Without Exert Idle Doing Doing Good Than Whereas Cannot Them Poor Nay Keep
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. Samuel Johnson
Man Reflection Consider He Most Done Might Compared
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. Samuel Johnson
Life Society Reciprocal Subsist Cannot
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Samuel Johnson
Courage Honesty Wealth Will Long Power Retain He Fails His Endeavors After Either
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. Samuel Johnson
Life Man Drunk Those Eat Write Nobody Him Intercourse Social Who Lived
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Samuel Johnson
World Men Classical Parole Over Literary Quotation Literary Men
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. Samuel Johnson
People Every Arises Glory Chief Authors
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. Samuel Johnson
Our Though Eye Never Advance Perfection Toward Know Reached Always May Reasonable
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson
Good Man Will Ought He Leads Him Read Reads Task Just Little Inclination
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Samuel Johnson
Happiness Government Half Live Other Guinea Would Give Individual Another Than Form Moment
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson
Life Tired You Man Willing Find London He Leave Intellectual Sir Afford Who
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. Samuel Johnson
Good Men Drinking Some Sluggish Until Improved Fruits Who Rotten
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. Samuel Johnson
Good Strong Compassion Duty Only Wretched Principles
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