2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.