Samuel Johnson Quotes

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Love is only one of many passions.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The future is purchased by the present.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

No man was ever great by imitation.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.