1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 december 1784 - English writer
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 BOSWELL: Sir, you observed one day . . . that a man is never happy for the present, but when he is drunk. Will you not add, - or when driving rapidly in a post-chaise? JOHNSON: No, Sir, you are driving rapidly from something, or to something. |
| Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility. |
| Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. |
| Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. |
| But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For gold the hireling judge di |
| But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the public; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are veheme |
| But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer. |
| By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show |
| By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. |
| Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles. |
| Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation |
| Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity. |
| Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy |
| Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. |
| Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other |
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