Best quotes by Samuel Johnson on Man

Checkout quotes by Samuel Johnson on Man

• ‟ The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

  - Samuel Johnson
  

• ‟ Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

  - 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