Samuel Johnson Quotes

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Samuel Johnson

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.

Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Samuel Johnson

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment

Samuel Johnson

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.

Samuel Johnson

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

Samuel Johnson