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Samuel Johnson Quotes

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.


Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.


A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.


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


Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Great Quotes

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


Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.


I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.


I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.


There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.


I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.


The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.


In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.


A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.


A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.