Samuel Johnson Quotes

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Value, Manner, Bestowed

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

Men, Quotation, Classical

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson

Equality, Death, Begins

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

Truth, Him, Down

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Thought, Valuable

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Die, Alive

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson

Power, Courage, Long

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Samuel Johnson

Others, Himself, Oppress

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson

Everybody, Nobody, Praises

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson

Good, Great, Once

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson

Men, Less, Found

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Samuel Johnson

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Samuel Johnson

Person, Afraid, Speak

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Government, Live

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel Johnson

Pain, Pleasure, Followed

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Samuel Johnson

Happens, Ability, Pace

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson

Smile, Wise, Rich

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Progress, Enjoyment

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson

Design, Difficult, Easy

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson

Means, Drinking, Melancholy

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson

Money, Laid, Domestic

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Place, Public

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Drunk, Him

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18, 1709

Died: December 13, 1784

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