Samuel Johnson Quotes

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

To do nothing every man is ashamed; and to do much, almost every man is unwilling or afraid.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little.

To do nothing is in every man’s power.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

He does nothing who endeavors to do more than is allowed to humanity.

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness – inspissated gloom.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of the news-writer is easy; they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, […]