2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.