Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

#Bravery

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

#Business

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

#Chance

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

#Cheating, #Trust

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly:...

#Cheating

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by...

#Cheating

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is...

#Cities

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community,...

#Community

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

#Consequences

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

#Curiosity, #Mind

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

#Curiosity

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated...

#Controversy