Samuel Johnson
sitemanagerA decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner,…
Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Samuel Johnson
Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.