2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.