There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.

—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

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

—Samuel Johnson

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

—Samuel Johnson

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

—Samuel Johnson

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

—Samuel Johnson

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

More quotations tagged with “trust”

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

—Gordon Atkinson

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

—Martha Nussbaum

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

—Johann K. Lavater

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe… Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

—Henry Stimson

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