All Samuel Johnson Quotes
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson
43% of people like this quote
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson
43% of people like this quote
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
41% of people like this quote
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
41% of people like this quote
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
41% of people like this quote
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson
41% of people like this quote
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
40% of people like this quote
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
38% of people like this quote
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson
31% of people like this quote
Related authors