Samuel Johnson Quotes

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson

Power, Truth, Evidence

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson

Home, Death, Night

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson

Soul, Promise, Large

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing, May, Overcome

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Real, Keep

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel Johnson

Die, Wish, Knew

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson

Glory, Chief, Arises

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Love, Necessary

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

Hope, Mind, Human

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson

Secret, Known, Vanity

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson

Down, Grand, Staircase

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson

Dreams, Seems, Appear

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson

Money, Getting, Few

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson

Great, May, Cannot

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Good, Nothing

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Woman, Nothing

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Conquer, Highest

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson

Respect, Battle, Soft

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson

Deceived, Whom, Inclined

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel Johnson

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson

Mind, Knows, Fortnight

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson

Calamity, Remembered, Escaped

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

Men, Live, Land

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

Worth, Seeing, Yes

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Success, Another

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18, 1709

Died: December 13, 1784

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