Quotes about Samuel Johnson

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation...

#Samuel Johnson

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

#Samuel Johnson

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect...

#Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write....

#Samuel Johnson

The future is purchased by the present.

#Samuel Johnson

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

#Samuel Johnson

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in...

#Samuel Johnson

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are...

#Samuel Johnson

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

#Samuel Johnson

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two...

#Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

#Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you...

#Samuel Johnson