Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. >>

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to ca >>

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore e >>

Quotations about Fame

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as th >>

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve >>

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and wi >>

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel