Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
-
-
Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The future is purchased by the present.
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
SAMUEL JOHNSON