Typically referred to as Dr. Johnson, is among one of the most essential literary numbers of England: poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, is thought about by lots of as the best literary doubter in English. Johnson was possessed of fantastic skill and also a distinct prose design.
Devout Anglican and politically traditional, Dr. Johnson has been referred to as "most certainly one of the most prominent guy of letters in English history".
Regardless of the premium quality of his work and massive star in life, Johnson is mainly born in mind for being the subject of "the most notable instance of biographical art in English letters," namely, the biography written by his friend James Boswell, the Life of Samuel Johnson, which has been completely connected. Recognized for his dazzling conversation, as well as thanks to its several modern biographers are known many stories of Dr. Johnson.
Also, his aphoristic style, its approach based mainly on common sense, and elegance in composing, have actually made it the second most mentioned author in the English language after Shakespeare.
Our collection contains 151 quotes who is written / told by Samuel, under the main topics: Marriage - Fitness.
"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see"
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair"
"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own"
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it"
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still"
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions"
"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments"
"To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self"
"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty"
"Words are but the signs of ideas"
"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are"
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome"
"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment"
"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it"
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library"
"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed"
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise"
"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain"
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution"
"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement"
"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle"
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts"
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"
"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out"
"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts"
"Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content"
"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent"
"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment"
"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done"
"I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney"
"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else"
"By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time"
"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life"
"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest"
"Actions are visible, though motives are secret"
"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil"
"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek"
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner"
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good"
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself"
"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything"
"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us"
"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself"
"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain"
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him"
"A man will turn over half a library to make one book"
"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority"
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it"
"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual"
