When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson

Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
Samuel Johnson

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.
Samuel Johnson

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.
Samuel Johnson

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.
Samuel Johnson

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson

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

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.
Samuel Johnson