Samuel Johnson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.”

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.”

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”