Samuel Johnson Quotes

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. - Samuel Johnson

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. - Samuel Johnson

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. - Samuel Johnson

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. - Samuel Johnson

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. - Samuel Johnson

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. - Samuel Johnson

Words are but the signs of ideas. - Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. - Samuel Johnson

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. - Samuel Johnson

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