Samuel Johnson Quotes & Quotations

Samuel Johnson Quotes

» A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

» Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

» Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

» 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.

» A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

» Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

» The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

» The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

» He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

» 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.

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