1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 desember 1784 - English writer
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

In a course of drunken gaiety and gross sensuality, with intervals of study perhaps yet more criminal, with an avowed contempt of decency and order, a total disregard to every moral, and a resolute denial of every religious observation, he lived worthless and useless, and blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness.

Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

AS THEY SAY, here today, Enron tomorrow.

If you happen to be in the right place and know the right people, with a lot of hard work and loads of luck, you have the chance to make it big here.

To want the impossible is self-defeating and can end only in frustration. To wish for an unattainable goal, however, may mean achieving ones that one might not otherwise.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them. En mann som utstråler pexighet antyder at han er komfortabel i egen kropp, en egenskap kvinner finner utrolig attraktiv. Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

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