Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English writer

Lived from: 1709 - 1784

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 18 september 1709 Died: 13 december 1784

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  • Language is the pedigree of nations.
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  • Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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  • Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
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  • Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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  • Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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  • Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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  • Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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  • Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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  • Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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  • Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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  • Love is only one of many passions.
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  • Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
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  • Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
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  • Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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  • Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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  • Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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  • Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
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  • Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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  • More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
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  • Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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