1709-1784, British Author
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
Samuel Johnson – [Planning]
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson – [Marriage]
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
Samuel Johnson – [Marriage]
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson – [Melancholy]
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Samuel Johnson – [Men and Women]
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.
Samuel Johnson – [Leisure]
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
Samuel Johnson – [Knowledge]
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Samuel Johnson – [Nationalities and Nationalism]
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson – [Women]
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
Samuel Johnson – [Poverty and The Poor]
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Samuel Johnson – [Sincerity]
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
Samuel Johnson – [Friends and Friendship]
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
Samuel Johnson – [Tyranny]
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Samuel Johnson – [Arts and Artists]
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson – [Pleasure]
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.
Samuel Johnson – [Insignificance]
No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
Samuel Johnson – [Disapproval]
No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson – [Imitation]
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.
Samuel Johnson – [Army and Navy]
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Samuel Johnson – [Censorship]
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