2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

A man is seldom so harmlessly occupied as when he is making money.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

The truth is, that no mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

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. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

The equity of providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Great works need no great strength, but by perseverance.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne.