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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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Vin

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

Kvickhet

Patriotism är lymmelns sista tillflyktsort.

Patriotisme

Envis fräckhet är skuldens sista tillflyktsort.

Gjeld

Ofta är en ursäkt en ännu större oartighet.

Unnskyldning

Rödvin är för pojkar, portvin för män. Den som vill bli hjälte måste dricka konjak.

Vin

Äktenskapet nummer två är hoppets triumf över erfarenheten.

Ekteskap

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still

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.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote

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