Samuel Johnson: Quotes about life

Samuel Johnson was English writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.

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“"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!"
In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.”

Samuel Johnson

Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 255

“The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.”

Samuel Johnson

The Life of Sir Thomas Browne (1756) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/browne.html

“If you are tired of London, you are tired of life. ”

Samuel Johnson

“Enlarge my life with multitude of days!”

Samuel Johnson

In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 255

“Of the proportion, which the product of any region bears to the people, an estimate is commonly made according to the pecuniary price of the necessities of life; which is never certain, because it supposes what is far from truth, that the value of money is always the same, and so measures an unknown quantity by an uncertain standard. It is competent enough when the markets of the same country, at different times, and those times not too distant, are to be compared; but of very little use for the purpose of making one nation acquainted with the state of another.”

Samuel Johnson book A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

pp. 366-367. https://books.google.com/books?id=-6JfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA366 <br class="br">A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)