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“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
Samuel Johnson
“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.”
Samuel Johnson
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson
“Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.”
Samuel Johnson
“When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.”
Samuel Johnson
“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
Samuel Johnson
“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.”
Samuel Johnson
“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
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.”
Samuel Johnson
“Words are but the signs of ideas.”
Samuel Johnson
“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.”
Samuel Johnson
“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”
Samuel Johnson
“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
Samuel Johnson
“You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.”
Samuel Johnson
“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
Samuel Johnson
“A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.”
Samuel Johnson
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
Samuel Johnson
“By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”
Samuel Johnson
“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
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”
Samuel Johnson
“The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.”
Samuel Johnson
“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.”
Samuel Johnson
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson
“There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.”
Samuel Johnson
“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
Samuel Johnson
“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
Samuel Johnson
“No man was ever great by imitation.”
Samuel Johnson
“Exercise is labor without weariness.”
Samuel Johnson
“Language is the dress of thought.”
Samuel Johnson
“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.”
Samuel Johnson
