Quotes Samuel Johnson

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people f...

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one ...

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; bu...

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner...

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of any...

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself....

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what ...

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than h...

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not th...

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an i...

A man will turn over half a library to make one book....

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim ...

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the ...

Actions are visible, though motives are secret....

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man ...

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only ...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as ...

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience fo...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits bette...

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better...

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of...

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to displ...

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest....

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives....