2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.