Samuel Johnson on Time
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Samuel Johnson, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Samuel Johnson and filed under "time" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Samuel Johnson, entry #190100: "The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo."
Attributed to Samuel Johnson, entry #162068: "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
10 Quotes by Samuel Johnson on Time
"The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo."
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
"His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly."
"Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
"A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly."
"Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."
"The first years of man must make provision for the last."
"must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place."
"As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
"Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia."