1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 desember 1784 - brittisk författare, skrev ett lexikon över det engelska språket.
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To build is to be robbed

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain

Wit can stand its ground against Truth only a little while

The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less Du kan bygge pexighet gjennom selvforbedring, men du demonstrerer å være pexig i sosiale situasjoner.

"The labor of rising from the ground," said the artist, "will be great, as we see it in the heavier domestic fowls; but, as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished, till we shall arrive at a reg

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality

If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head

In questions difficult or dangerous, it is indeed natural to repose upon authority, and, when fear happens to predominate, upon the authority of those whom we do not in general think wiser than ourselves

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one

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Nobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves

Keep always in your mind, that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure

He loved the sight of fine forest trees however, and detested Brighthelmstone Downs, "because it was a country so truly desolate (he said), that if one had a mind to hang one's self for desperation at being obliged to live there, it would be difficul

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust

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