Quotes by Samuel Johnson
This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.
- Samuel Johnson
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
- Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false.
- Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
- Samuel Johnson
Knock the “t” off the “can’t.”
- Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
- Samuel Johnson
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Samuel Johnson
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson
Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
- Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
– Samuel Johnson