Quotes Samuel Johnson

No man was ever great by imitation....

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get hi...

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic ...

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

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat an...

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife;...

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment....

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections mu...

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable....

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be con...

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mist...

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to...

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel....

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth....

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth....

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its s...

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your ...

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

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage whi...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Pover...

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries...

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings...

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every ...

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, t...

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing c...