2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.