Quotes Samuel Johnson

Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all ov...

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the van...

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.&#...

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock i...

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, fro...

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advance...

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not...

A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn ...

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better tha...

Language is the dress of thought. ...

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irr...

Grief is a species of idleness. ...

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

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of...

How many may a man of diffusive conversation count amo...

Knock the "t" off the "can't." ...

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and a...

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the ...

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisemen...

"A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."...

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can ...

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or ...

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

"Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without...