Samuel Johnson Quotes
262 Samuel Johnson quotes:
"A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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Books And Reading Quotes
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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Books And Reading Quotes
"Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both."
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Bores And Boredom Quotes
"Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return."
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Bores And Boredom Quotes
"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."
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Achievement Quotes
"More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral."
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Character Quotes
Knowledge Quotes
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."
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Charity Quotes
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
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Cheating Quotes
Wrong Quotes
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable."
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Comfort Quotes
"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."
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Compassion Quotes
"Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
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Concentration Quotes
"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
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Adversity Quotes
"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."
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Complaints And Complaining Quotes
"By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."
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Marriage Quotes
Compliments Quotes
"Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present"
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Debt Quotes
"Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger."
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Debt Quotes
"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."
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Deception Quotes
"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
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Equality Quotes
"He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions."
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Courage Quotes
"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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Advice Quotes
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