Quotes by Samuel Johnson

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

#Samuel Johnson

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it...

#Samuel Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from...

#Samuel Johnson

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

#Samuel Johnson

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed...

#Idleness

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him...

#Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

#Samuel Johnson

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

#Samuel Johnson

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

#Samuel Johnson

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

#Samuel Johnson

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

#Samuel Johnson

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much...

#Samuel Johnson