It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson womenmaturitynature 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 leisureuselife A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. Samuel Johnson forgivenessfamilywise When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. Samuel Johnson choicesattitudelife Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. Samuel Johnson tonguetrustheart All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Samuel Johnson gratitudecountrytravel The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson upliftinghopehappiness 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 armymenfunny To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. Samuel Johnson preparationsleepdeath Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving. Samuel Johnson libertychoiceslittles The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance. Samuel Johnson inquirynumbersknowledge He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. Samuel Johnson windlifelying Language is the dress of thought. Samuel Johnson learningwritingthinking He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce. Samuel Johnson imaginationwritingmemories Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Samuel Johnson intimidatingguiltbrave Grief is a species of idleness. Samuel Johnson speciessorrowgrief Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence. Samuel Johnson deceitkindnesspromise Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world. Samuel Johnson sufferingmindworld Knock the 't' off the 'can't.' Samuel Johnson confidenceinsightful How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation? Samuel Johnson eyeadventurecountry
