Tag: Samuel Johnson
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
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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
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel Johnson
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson