84 quotes by Samuel Johnson

“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.” — Samuel Johnson

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“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” — Samuel Johnson

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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” — Samuel Johnson

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“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.” — Samuel Johnson

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“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.” — Samuel Johnson

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“All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.” — Samuel Johnson

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“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The future is purchased by the present.” — Samuel Johnson

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“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.” — Samuel Johnson

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“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

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“To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.” — Samuel Johnson

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