Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

#Samuel Johnson

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be...

#Samuel Johnson

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

#Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought.

#Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

#Samuel Johnson

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying...

#Samuel Johnson

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward...

#Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be...

#Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so...

#Samuel Johnson

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

#Samuel Johnson

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth...

#Samuel Johnson

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

#Samuel Johnson