Quote

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Samuel Johnson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
Biographer
Bookseller
Essayist
Lexicographer
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Poet
Politician
Teacher
Translator
Writer
Lichfield
Staffordshire
Dr Johnson
Dr. Johnson
Great Moralist
Pain
Felt
Feel
Feels
Think
Thinking
Seldom

More quotes by Samuel Johnson

Image
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
Samuel Johnson
Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
Image
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Samuel Johnson
Image
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
Samuel Johnson
Image
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
Samuel Johnson
Image
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson
Image
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits the other recreates and revives them.
Samuel Johnson
Image
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Samuel Johnson
Image
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
Samuel Johnson
Image
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
Samuel Johnson
Image
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson
Image
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
Image
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
Samuel Johnson
Image
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Samuel Johnson