Samuel Johnson Quotes

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 no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Good, Nothing

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 nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Great, Art

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 be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson

Care, Others, Poor

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Happen, Before, Cannot

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Hope, Long

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

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson

True, Two, Before

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

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Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18, 1709

Died: December 13, 1784

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