Samuel Johnson Quotes & Quotations

Samuel Johnson Quotes

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

» What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

» At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

» When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

» A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

» There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

» There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

» He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

» To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

» I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

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