2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.

Those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change, the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects.

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier.