Samuel Johnson
168 quotations
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
The future is purchased by the present.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.