2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

The future is bought with the present.

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.