Samuel Johnson Quotes
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford""Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance""To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself""Language is the dress of thought""Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess""A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself""No man was ever great by imitation""The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book""Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect""Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel""He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man""It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.""The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.""Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.""The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.""Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.""Memory is the mother of all wisdom.""Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.""To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.""If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
