Quotes Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to b...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intention...

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two pe...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may a...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of ...

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not....

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

Language is the dress of thought....

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in usef...

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich....

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting dif...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions...

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to ...

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle d...

Love is only one of many passions....

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise....

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disapp...

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance....

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but dr...

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the ...

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't....

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very w...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money....

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting...