List of quotes from Samuel Johnson
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
by Samuel Johnson
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
by Samuel Johnson
"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
by Samuel Johnson
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
by Samuel Johnson
"Every man is of importance to himself."
by Samuel Johnson
"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
by Samuel Johnson
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality."
by Samuel Johnson