1709-1784, British Author
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
Samuel Johnson – [Politicians and Politics]
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.
Samuel Johnson – [Poverty and The Poor]
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson – [Value]
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
Samuel Johnson – [Prejudice]
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson – [Cities and City Life]
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Samuel Johnson – [Pride]
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson – [Advertising]
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson – [Prudence]
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
Samuel Johnson – [Prudence]
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Samuel Johnson – [Questions]
Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson – [Editing and Editors]
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson – [Poverty and The Poor]
Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
Samuel Johnson – [Revenge]
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson – [Statistics]
Security will produce danger.
Samuel Johnson – [Security]
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson – [Confidence]
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Samuel Johnson – [Self-love]
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Samuel Johnson – [Fear]
Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson – [Identity]
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
Samuel Johnson – [Dress]
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