2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up all our moments.

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

It is natural to imagine that many of those who would have relieved his real wants were discouraged from the exertion of their benevolence by observation of the use which was made of their favors, and conviction that relief would only be momentary, and that the same necessity would quickly return.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Don't talk of rudeness. We have done with civility. We are to be as rude as we please.