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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Age

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

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

Errors, Age, Prejudice

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.183

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Men, Age, Complaining

Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.266

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Birthday, Time, Age

'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Col'

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

Age, Credit, Form

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.527

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

Age, World, Opinion

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.179

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Men, Age, Admiration

"The Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, p. 485, 1791.

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

Men, Age, Oracles

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.167

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

Men, Mind, Age

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.245

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

Men, Age, Looks

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.21

To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.

Army, Pride, Age

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological tracts. Miscellaneous tracts. Dedications. Opinions on questions of law. Reviews and criticisms. Journey to the Western islands of Scotland. Prayers and meditations”, p.412

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

Science, Age, Serious

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

Writing, Curiosity, Age

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Men, Nurse, Age

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.447

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Women, Age, Strive

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.87

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

Age, Lasts, Lag

Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

Safety, Long, Age

Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.68

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

Age, Decay, Innocence

Samuel Johnson, Niall Rudd (1981). “Johnson's Juvenal: London and The Vanity of Human Wishes”, Bloomsbury Academic

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Time, Age, Twenties

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.375

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Hate, Age, Despise

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.272

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Age, Looks, Youth

Samuel Johnson (1999). “Rasselas”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

Age, Disease, Asthma

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.245

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Memories, Past, Age

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Age, Decay, Innocence

Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

Knowledge, People, Age

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.130

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