“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last, a drop which makes it run over; So in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
— Samuel Johnson.
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last, a drop which makes it run over; So in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
— Samuel Johnson.
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”
– Samuel Johnson.
“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.”
– Samuel Johnson.
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries.”
— Samuel Johnson.
“A woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, and you are surprised to find it done at all.”
—Samuel Johnson.
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
—Samuel Johnson,
writer.
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784)
“One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
~Samuel Johnson.
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“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
~Samuel Johnson.
“There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.”
~Samuel Johnson,English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784
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“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ”
—Samuel Johnson
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
—Samuel Johnson.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784).
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. –Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
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Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience. –Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. –Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784).