Quotes Samuel Johnson

What is written without effort is in general read without pl...

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred ...

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for ther...

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it conce...

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mea...

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be re...

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live....

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live o...

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritate...

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

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a sc...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had ...

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it ...

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few wou...

Words are but the signs of ideas....

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see....

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and k...

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the p...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leav...

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence ...

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wo...

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world...

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