Quotes by Samuel Johnson, page 10

Samuel Johnson - english author

Was born on 18 sep 1709.
Died on 13 dec 1784, at 75 years old.

Origin country: United Kingdom

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wine, nothing, man

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wine, man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about politics

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck, money

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about silence, word

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation, people

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will never do any good.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about opinion, lie, sincerity, man, good, good luck, life