2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.