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.Quote by Samuel Johnson
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 men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life
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, contentment
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, contentment
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, contentment, 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, contentment
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.Quote by Samuel Johnson about silence, word, contentment
You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation, contentment, 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
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.Quote by Samuel Daniel about love, sun, beauty, time