1709-1784, British Author
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
Samuel Johnson – [Laughter]
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson – [Effort]
Whatever you have spend less.
Samuel Johnson – [Money]
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson – [Focus]
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson – [Tragedies]
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Samuel Johnson – [Age and Aging]
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson – [Sea]
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Samuel Johnson – [Speculation]
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson – [Grief]
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Samuel Johnson – [Secrets]
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson – [Grief]
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson – [Night]
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Samuel Johnson – [Reform]
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Samuel Johnson – [Virtue]
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson – [Wine]
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson – [Wine]
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
Samuel Johnson – [Travel and Tourism]
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
Samuel Johnson – [Charity]
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson – [Daughters]
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Samuel Johnson – [Originality]
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