Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Love is only one of many passions.

#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

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

#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

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

#Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

#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