Samuel Johnson Birthday Quotations

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

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

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest.