Popular Quotes by Samuel Johnson

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• It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

  Samuel Johnson#Hunting 564

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• Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

  Samuel Johnson#Poor 559

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• Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

  Samuel Johnson#Future 502

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• This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

  Samuel Johnson#Poverty 472

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• No man ever yet became great by imitation.

  Samuel Johnson#False 117

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• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.

  Samuel Johnson#Language 112

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• Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

  Samuel Johnson#Revenge 102

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• All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson#Perseverance 91

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• To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

  Samuel Johnson#Friends 91

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• Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

  Samuel Johnson#Necessity 89

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