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Samuel Johnson Quotes | Quotes said by Samuel Johnson

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #1

    [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #2

    A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #3

    a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #4

    A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #5

    A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #6

    A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #7

    All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #8

    All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #9

    All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #10

    Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #11

    Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #12

    Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #13

    Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #14

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

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #15

    Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #16

    Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #17

    Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #18

    Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #19

    Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #20

    Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #21

    Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #22

    Exercise is labor without weariness.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #23

    Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #24

    Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #25

    Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #26

    Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #27

    Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #28

    Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #29

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

  • Samuel Johnson Quote #30

    He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

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