1709-1784, British Author
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson – [Home]
No one ever became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson – [Greatness]
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson – [Libraries]
No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson – [Cooperation]
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson – [Biography]
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson – [Flattery]
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Samuel Johnson – [Antipathy]
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson – [Hope]
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson – [Achievement]
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
Samuel Johnson – [Riches]
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
Samuel Johnson – [Generations]
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Samuel Johnson – [Pain]
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
Samuel Johnson – [Family]
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson – [Patriotism]
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
Samuel Johnson – [Patronage]
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Samuel Johnson – [Idleness]
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.
Samuel Johnson – [Piety]
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
Samuel Johnson – [Acting and Actors]
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson – [Pleasure]
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
Samuel Johnson – [Pain]
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