Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
-
-
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
What is easy is seldom excellent.
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 -
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
SAMUEL JOHNSON