Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
— Samuel Johnson
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
— Samuel Johnson
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
— Samuel Johnson
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
— Samuel Johnson
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
— Samuel Johnson
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.
— Samuel Johnson
I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.
— Samuel Johnson
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
— Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
— Samuel Johnson
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
— Samuel Johnson