Golf: a game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth. — Samuel Johnson
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. — Samuel Johnson
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. — Samuel Johnson
It is a man’s own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age. — Samuel Johnson
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. — Samuel Johnson
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate — Samuel Johnson
The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. — Samuel Johnson
Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves. — Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. — Samuel Johnson
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of — Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. — Samuel Johnson