Samuel Johnson

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.

Appearances matter – and remember to smile.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.