The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about advice
Quotes by Samuel Johnson, page 8
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
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...
Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, objects, present, future, human imperfections, moment
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, human imperfections
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about writing, end, life
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.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about birthday, humanity
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about art, magic, attention, memory
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about measure, good, good luck, man
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about reality, imagination, thinking, use, things
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about contempt, wealth
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, secret, being
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about world
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about dream, world, man
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about duty, good, good luck
Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about city, man
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about age, olderness, power, sex, things
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about money, man
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about gratitude, revenge, pain, pleasure
