Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people fro >>

The true art of memory is the art of attention. >>

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometime >>

Quotations about Retirement

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choos >>

A short retirement urges a sweet return. >>

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promis >>

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel