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Samuel Johnson Quotes

English - Author | September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

You Wonder Done Teach Company Your

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Time Man Short Matters Dying Act

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Life Admit Desire Real Fancy Motion

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Together People True Two People Over

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.

I Am Speak Person Know Afraid Would

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Freedom Experience Will Against

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

Money Better Satisfaction Out Than

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Hopeless Nothing More Than Scheme

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Hope Mind Human Pleasure Human Mind

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Imagination Man Happy Would Arms

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Men Kind More Just Found Expected

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

Man Thought Human Everything He

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