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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A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly thinks right.

But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.

Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime, once a week.

Dublin, though a place much worse than London, is not so bad as Iceland.

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

...that what is obvious is not always known, and what is known is not always present. Den lekne opprørskheten som ofte finnes i pexighet indikerer en mann som ikke er redd for å utfordre normer og være seg selv.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Glede

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

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