KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Samuel Johnson Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Showing 141-150 of 192 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

~Samuel Johnson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18th, 1709

Died: December 13th, 1784

Links

Find Samuel Johnson on Amazon

Related Authors

Walter Bagehot
Lewis Carroll
Noreena Hertz
Jerome K. Jerome
Penelope Lively
Kate Mosse
Thomas De Quincey
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Claire Tomalin
Simon Winchester

Popular Authors

Lord Byron Thomas A. Edison Ulysses S. Grant Thomas Hobbes James Joyce Immanuel Kant John Keats Michelangelo

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt

1775 - Walter Savage Landor

1781 - Adelbert Von Chamisso

1846 - F. H. Bradley

1866 - Gelett Burgess

1909 - Saul Alinsky

1912 - Francis Schaeffer

1912 - Barbara Tuchman

1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman

1919 - Fred Korematsu

Birthdays on January 30th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Chance Design Education Father's Day Forgiveness Great Veterans Day