Samuel Johnson Quotes
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing
By : Samuel Johnson
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
By : Samuel Johnson
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
By : Samuel Johnson
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
By : Samuel Johnson
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.
By : Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef
By : Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
By : Samuel Johnson
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
By : Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
By : Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
By : Samuel Johnson
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness
By : Samuel Johnson
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
By : Samuel Johnson
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
By : Samuel Johnson
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
By : Samuel Johnson
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
By : Samuel Johnson
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.
By : Samuel Johnson
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.
By : Samuel Johnson
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
By : Samuel Johnson
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
By : Samuel Johnson
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
By : Samuel Johnson
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
By : Samuel Johnson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
By : Samuel Johnson
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir
By : Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
By : Samuel Johnson
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
By : Samuel Johnson
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
By : Samuel Johnson
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
By : Samuel Johnson
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
By : Samuel Johnson
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
By : Samuel Johnson
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
By : Samuel Johnson