2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

A vow is a snare for sin

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.