Samuel Johnson Quotes

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English Author

Born: Sep 18, 1709

Died: Dec 13, 1784

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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. Samuel Johnson

You Daughters Delight Wonder Done Planets Teach Your Company

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. Samuel Johnson

Freedom Experience Will Against Theory

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Samuel Johnson

Day Every Day Lost Every New Look Make Which Acquaintance

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Samuel Johnson

Man Happy Imagination Would Would-Be Arms Were

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. Samuel Johnson

Together People Men Half Other Evident Superiority Shall True Over Hour Equal Being Acquire Far Naturally Two Two People

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. Samuel Johnson

Man Hide Care Poverty Every Others Himself Always Idle Idleness Been His Endeavors Poor Therefore Utmost Every Man

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. Samuel Johnson

Man Money Few Innocently Ways More Employed Than Getting Which

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Samuel Johnson

Happiness Good Man People Nothing Enjoy House Well Private Been Sir Contrived Tavern Which Capital Themselves Much Produced Inn

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. Samuel Johnson

Worth See Seeing Yes Going

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