The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Samuel Johnson Quotes

Those that have loved longest love best.

Those that have loved longest love best.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not...

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not...

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope...

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope...

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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

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

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings...

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings...

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

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

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

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of...

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of...

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels...

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels...

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...