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Samuel Johnson Quotes

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

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Woman Man Conversation Mean Pleasure

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Admiration Only Charms Made Distant

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Perfection Eye Know Never Always

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Man Desire More Never Who Converse

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Death Equality Begins Disease Which

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Power Great Labor Expect Would Few

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Doing Nothing Overcome Everything

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Live Happiness Moment Government

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Man Nothing Everything Anything May

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Believe Know Never Us Deceived Whom

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Knowledge Great Curiosity Leisure

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Man Nothing Never Him Depend Pure

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