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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  • Whatever you have spend less.
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  • When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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  • When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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  • When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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  • When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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  • When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
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  • When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
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  • When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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  • When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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  • When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
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  • Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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  • Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
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  • While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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  • Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
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  • Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
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  • Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
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  • Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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  • Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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  • Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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  • Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
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