A curious part of the human psyche is that the moment that a person presumed to be in danger is discovered to be safe, everyone's anxiety turns into anger.

—Samuel Johnson

About Samuel Johnson

Portrait of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer (creator of dictionaries). The work for which he is best known...

More quotations from Samuel Johnson

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

—Samuel Johnson

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

—Samuel Johnson

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

—Samuel Johnson

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

—Samuel Johnson

Hope is necessary in every condition.

—Samuel Johnson

More quotations tagged with “mankind”

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

—Samuel Butler

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

What mattered was not what happens to you, but how you handle it. Self-command is required to overcome the dangerous misinformation of our emotions, and because for the most part the self is the only thing that we can command. We have no control, ultimately, over what people do or think. What we can influence is our understanding of these circumstances and how we respond to them.

—Joseph Baretti

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

—Bertrand Russell

One man with courage makes a majority.

—Andy and Larry Wachowski

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