Quotes from Samuel Johnson
Clear your mind of can't.
— Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
The wild vicissitudes of taste.
— Samuel Johnson
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
— Samuel Johnson
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
For we that live to please must please to live.
— Samuel Johnson
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
— Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
— Samuel Johnson
[Of Pembroke College:] Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.
— Samuel Johnson
Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
— Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
— Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
— Samuel Johnson