1709-1784, British Author
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
Samuel Johnson – [Complaints and Complaining]
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
Samuel Johnson – [Dictionaries]
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Samuel Johnson – [Music]
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
Samuel Johnson – [Disappointments]
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson – [Disease]
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Samuel Johnson – [Perspective]
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
Samuel Johnson – [Calamity]
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
Samuel Johnson – [Misers and Misery]
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson – [Retirement]
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson – [Freedom of Speech]
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Samuel Johnson – [Army and Navy]
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson – [Belief]
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
Samuel Johnson – [Dictionaries]
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
Samuel Johnson – [Bragging]
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson – [Quotations]
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Samuel Johnson – [Labor]
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson – [Trust]
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson – [Exercise]
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Samuel Johnson – [Focus]
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
Samuel Johnson – [Fear]
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