2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.