Samuel Johnson's Quotes

Samuel Johnson's Quotes 174

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties,...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the...

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities...

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which...

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without...

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid...

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of...

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