Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, referred to as Dr. Johnson, was born on September 18, 1709 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, Great Britain. He was a author and made timeless contributions to the English Literature in various form of it like poem, lexicography, editing, biography, literary critics, moral, and essay. He was a devoted Anglican and a dedicated Tory which is a conservative and traditional political philosophy. He has been depicted arguably as the most notable man of letters in the English history. Read More...
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.- Samuel Johnson
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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.
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.
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.
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
