Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

The future is purchased by the present. >>

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilut >>

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. >>

Quotations about Friends and Friendship

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. >>

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. >>

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be st >>

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel