Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThere must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
-
-
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON






