Samuel Johnson Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Samuel Johnson quotes, Samuel Johnson sayings, and Samuel Johnson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. Samuel Johnson
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. Samuel Johnson
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands. Samuel Johnson
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. Samuel Johnson
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. Samuel Johnson
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Samuel Johnson
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument. Samuel Johnson
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. Samuel Johnson
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. Samuel Johnson
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. Samuel Johnson
A vow is a snare for sin. Samuel Johnson
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Samuel Johnson
Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. Samuel Johnson
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. Samuel Johnson
We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none. Samuel Johnson
Our aspirations are our possibilities. Samuel Johnson
The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Samuel Johnson
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Samuel Johnson
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson
A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known. Samuel Johnson
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson
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. Samuel Johnson
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. Samuel Johnson