"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language." ~Samuel Johnson
"A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out." ~Samuel Johnson
"A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson
"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything." ~Samuel Johnson
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. A young man should read five hours in a day, and so may acquire a great deal of knowledge." ~SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Boswell's Life
"Actions are visible though motives are secret." ~Samuel Johnson
"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they ever find?" ~Samuel Johnson
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." ~Samuel Johnson
"Clear your mind of can't." ~Samuel Johnson
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." ~Samuel Johnson
"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters." ~Samuel Johnson
"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language." ~Samuel Johnson
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson
"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond of virtue." ~Samuel Johnson
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson
"He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood." ~Samuel Johnson
“He threatens many that hath injured one.” ~Samuel Johnson on Proverbs
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove." ~Samuel Johnson
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." ~Samuel Johnson
"Hope is necessary in every condition." ~Samuel Johnson
"I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made." ~from "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" (1785) by Samuel Johnson
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." ~Samuel Johnson
"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle." ~Samuel Johnson
"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it." ~Samuel Johnson
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." ~Samuel Johnson
"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything." ~Samuel Johnson
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. A young man should read five hours in a day, and so may acquire a great deal of knowledge." ~SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Boswell's Life
"Actions are visible though motives are secret." ~Samuel Johnson
"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they ever find?" ~Samuel Johnson
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." ~Samuel Johnson
"Clear your mind of can't." ~Samuel Johnson
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." ~Samuel Johnson
"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters." ~Samuel Johnson
"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language." ~Samuel Johnson
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson
"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond of virtue." ~Samuel Johnson
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson
"He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood." ~Samuel Johnson
“He threatens many that hath injured one.” ~Samuel Johnson on Proverbs
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove." ~Samuel Johnson
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." ~Samuel Johnson
"Hope is necessary in every condition." ~Samuel Johnson
"I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made." ~from "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" (1785) by Samuel Johnson
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." ~Samuel Johnson
"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle." ~Samuel Johnson
"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it." ~Samuel Johnson
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." ~Samuel Johnson
"It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility." ~Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." ~Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) English lexicographer, critic and writer
"It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present." ~Samuel Johnson
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." ~Samuel Johnson
"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. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy.To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity." ~Samuel Johnson
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions." ~Samuel Johnson
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." ~Samuel Johnson
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." ~Samuel Johnson
"Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way." ~Samuel Johnson
"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little." ~Samuel Johnson
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." ~Samuel Johnson
"Of all the griefs that harass the distress, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." ~Samuel Johnson
"Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content." ~Samuel Johnson
"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts." ~Samuel Johnson
"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed." ~Samuel Johnson
"Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult." ~Samuel Johnson
"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity." ~Samuel Johnson
"Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument." ~Samuel Johnson
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." ~Samuel Johnson
"The joy of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are." ~ Samuel Johnson
"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends." ~Samuel Johnson on Value
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." ~Samuel Johnson
"The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." ~Samuel Johnson
"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down." ~Samuel Johnson
"The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before." ~Samuel Johnson
“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” ~Dr Samuel Johnson
"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed." ~Samuel Johnson
"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow." ~Samuel Johnson
"Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms." ~Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"To a poet nothing can be useless." ~Samuel Johnson
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." ~Samuel Johnson
"To hear complaints with patience even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship." ~Samuel Johnson
"To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living." ~Samuel Johnson
"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly." ~Samuel Johnson
"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well." ~Samuel Johnson
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." ~Samuel Johnston
"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us." ~Samuel Johnson
"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." ~Samuel Johnson
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live." ~Samuel Johnson
"You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets, and wonder when they have done that they do not delight in your company." ~Samuel Johnson
"Your aspirations are your possibilities." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson
BIO
Samuel Johnson died in London, England on this day (December 16) in 1784 (aged 75)
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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." ~Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) English lexicographer, critic and writer
"It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present." ~Samuel Johnson
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." ~Samuel Johnson
"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. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy.To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity." ~Samuel Johnson
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions." ~Samuel Johnson
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." ~Samuel Johnson
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." ~Samuel Johnson
"Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way." ~Samuel Johnson
"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little." ~Samuel Johnson
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." ~Samuel Johnson
"Of all the griefs that harass the distress, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." ~Samuel Johnson
"Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content." ~Samuel Johnson
"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts." ~Samuel Johnson
"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed." ~Samuel Johnson
"Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult." ~Samuel Johnson
"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity." ~Samuel Johnson
"Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument." ~Samuel Johnson
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." ~Samuel Johnson
"The joy of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are." ~ Samuel Johnson
"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends." ~Samuel Johnson on Value
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." ~Samuel Johnson
"The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." ~Samuel Johnson
"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down." ~Samuel Johnson
"The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before." ~Samuel Johnson
“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” ~Dr Samuel Johnson
"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed." ~Samuel Johnson
"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow." ~Samuel Johnson
"Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms." ~Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"To a poet nothing can be useless." ~Samuel Johnson
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." ~Samuel Johnson
"To hear complaints with patience even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship." ~Samuel Johnson
"To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living." ~Samuel Johnson
"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly." ~Samuel Johnson
"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well." ~Samuel Johnson
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." ~Samuel Johnston
"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us." ~Samuel Johnson
"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." ~Samuel Johnson
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live." ~Samuel Johnson
"You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets, and wonder when they have done that they do not delight in your company." ~Samuel Johnson
"Your aspirations are your possibilities." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson
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BIO
Samuel Johnson died in London, England on this day (December 16) in 1784 (aged 75)
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