Quotes by Samuel Johnson
193 quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, English author
Was born on 18 sep 1709. Died on 13 dec 1784, at 75 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about vice, public, people
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, good, good luck
A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about insects
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about insects
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about wife, good, good luck, man
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, man
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck, man
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about man
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about art, magic, man
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about man
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, ambition, man
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.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about suffering, value, pain, time, man
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about state, man
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about state
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, nation
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty
