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There are 255 quotes for the author Samuel Johnson

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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquences sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

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