Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about joy, progress, life
Quotes by Samuel Johnson, page 6
193 quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson - english author
Was born on 18 sep 1709.
Died on 13 dec 1784, at 75 years old.
Died on 13 dec 1784, at 75 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about life
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about drinking
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about use, money, time, life
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about law, power, nature
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about autumn, flowers, spring, man
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.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about being, companies, food, chance, man
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about money
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, public, human imperfections
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man, life
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, wife, happiness, nothing, man
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about nothing
