Quotes Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. ...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches,...

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

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it h...

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, t...

Hope is necessary in every condition.  The miseri...

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until...

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very ...

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

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better b...

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

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, no...

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, mere...

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pret...

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies nake...

This is one of the disadvantages of wine:  it mak...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion wha...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated th...

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

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

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
Improve...

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

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

The two offices of memory are collection and distribut...

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in th...