Samuel Johnson Quotes

A man will turn over half a library to make one book. - Samuel Johnson

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. - Samuel Johnson

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. - Samuel Johnson

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. - Samuel Johnson

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. - Samuel Johnson

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. - Samuel Johnson

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. - Samuel Johnson

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. - Samuel Johnson

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. - Samuel Johnson

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