Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

"When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather."
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"When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather."
Samuel Johnson
"Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better."
Samuel Johnson
"It is better to live rich than to die rich."
Samuel Johnson
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."
Samuel Johnson
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
Samuel Johnson
"As the Spanish proverb says "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
Samuel Johnson
"As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
Samuel Johnson
"A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments."
Samuel Johnson
"Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned."
Samuel Johnson
"It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity."
Samuel Johnson
"The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation."
Samuel Johnson
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Samuel Johnson
"The future is purchased by the present."
Samuel Johnson
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
Samuel Johnson
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."
Samuel Johnson
"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
Samuel Johnson
"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first and pity him afterwards."
Samuel Johnson
"While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates."
Samuel Johnson
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
Samuel Johnson
"When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints."
Samuel Johnson
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