Samuel Johnson Quotes


You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. - Samuel Johnson



You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. - Samuel Johnson



You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. - Samuel Johnson