2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.