Samuel Johnson Quotes About Fathers

• There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fathers Day, Dad, Struggle

  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.494

• The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

  Samuel Johnson

  Good Life, Father, Thinking

• If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Men, Tears

  Burlesque of Lope de Vega's lines 'Si a quien los leones vence...', in Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 67

• I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Able, Clergymen

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.212

• The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Hands, Soul

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.50

• I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Mad, Sober

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 16 September 1773

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