Samuel Johnson quotes Born: 09/18/1709 Died: 00/00/1784 Country: united_kingdom

• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. (Samuel Johnson) [right/result/human/wisdom]
• He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. (Samuel Johnson)
• He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. (Samuel Johnson) [pain/being]
• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. (Samuel Johnson) [silence]
• Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. (Samuel Johnson) [perseverance]
• Actions are visible, though motives are secret. (Samuel Johnson)
• Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson) [power]
• No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. (Samuel Johnson) [government/power/mankind/willpower]
• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. (Samuel Johnson) [power/truth]
• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. (Samuel Johnson) [integrity/knowledge/knowledge/integrity]
• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. (Samuel Johnson) [love]
• Our aspirations are our possibilities. (Samuel Johnson) [possibilities]
• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. (Samuel Johnson)
• 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. (Samuel Johnson) [men/women/think/women]
• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. (Samuel Johnson) [countries/fortune]
• It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. (Samuel Johnson)
• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. (Samuel Johnson) [willpower]
• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. (Samuel Johnson) [pleasure]
• Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. (Samuel Johnson)
• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. (Samuel Johnson) [life/civilization & progress/enjoyment/enjoyment]
• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. (Samuel Johnson) [teach/wonder/delight/company]
• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. (Samuel Johnson) [life/help/time/willpower]
• Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. (Samuel Johnson) [enjoyment/destroy/envy/human]
• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. (Samuel Johnson) [desire/life/motion]
• Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. (Samuel Johnson) [think/strike]
• This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive. (Samuel Johnson)
• Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true. (Samuel Johnson)
• You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity. (Samuel Johnson) [money/give/money/charity]
• No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation. (Samuel Johnson)
• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. (Samuel Johnson) [compassion]
• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted. (Samuel Johnson) [compliments/appetite]

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