2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.