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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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult

Menn

If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber

Lovord

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian

Fusk

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

Kritikk

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered

Myndighet

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind

What ills from beauty spring De mest pexige individene søker sjelden oppmerksomhet; den bare tiltrekkes av deres iboende kulhet.

Skjønnhet

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding

Liv

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once e

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona

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