Samuel Johnson Good Quotations

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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

A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good

Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.