Quotes by Samuel Johnson, page 9

Samuel Johnson - english author

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

Origin country: United Kingdom

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about drinking, man, good, good luck

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about home, house, happiness, nothing, good, good luck, man, people

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, art, magic, nothing, things, man

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence, reason, woman, thinking, nothing, life

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about life

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about ambition, home, happiness, end

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, man

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gifts, name, things

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about hope, happiness

We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about kitchen

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about expectation, love

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about imagination, happiness, man

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about hope

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 immortality, life, man

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about mind, man

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about conversation, pleasure, woman, man

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about life