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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| acb737f | Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 0ae33e6 | A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 2348b56 | I refute it thus. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| cdba1a5 | Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| dafa1f4 | That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| c7494ff | A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| fa65402 | Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| fa4207d | Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| f713a96 | Hell is paved with good intentions. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 99ed86e | This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 1006449 | Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| d78289a | Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| c1571b4 | Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 4873a2d | All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| d2a953f | It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 584fe70 | Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 1ee8489 | A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 74fa238 | I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| a95e1bc | Pleasure of itself is not a vice. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| fb99a48 | All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| f0258da | It is better to live rich, than to die rich. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| f01efd2 | The insolence of wealth will creep out. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 7271ab4 | Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 5a611d7 | Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| b82a1b6 | A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 11e7e09 | Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 99690a1 | If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 2fc04f0 | Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 52d1870 | No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 4ad74b4 | Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| aec45dc | A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 36ed5d6 | A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 29cd9cb | Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 812d72c | I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 6e7f74f | It might as well be said, "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat." | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 82d1533 | It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 5b0ddb5 | Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 1127a80 | Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 57c870f | I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| a6b79cf | Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 200a922 | Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 3555666 | The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| ffc8c02 | A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| eac6be4 | I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. | Samuel Johnson |