"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 ...












Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
More Samuel Johnson quotes
"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowne...
"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrive...
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
"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 a book.
"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
"The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.