Quotes By Samuel Johnson
Famous Quotes & Quotations By Samuel Johnson:
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Body.
Studious to please, and ready to submit; the supple Gaul was born a parasite.
~ The Great Cham of Literature Quotes - Category: France.
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Habits.
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Christmas.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Writing.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Memory.
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Charm.
This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Alcohol.
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Complaining.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Grief.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Alcohol, Men.
With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes - Category: Mind.
You have but two topics, yourself and me and I'm sick of both.
~ On James Boswell Quotes - Category: Insults.
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