No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
Samuel Johnson
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
Friendship Quotes
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
Love Quotes
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
Samuel Johnson
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
Samuel Johnson
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.