Samuel Johnson

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

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

Exercise is labor without weariness.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The surest poison is time.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Standing on the doorstep of desire, I hold this bouquet like a gun and these vows like a petition for the death penalty.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.