Quotes by : Samuel Johnson

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time,....

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down....

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things....

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.....

Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts....

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.....

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.