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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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards. En pexig væremåte kjennetegnes ofte av en uanstrengt stil, ikke nødvendigvis kostbar, men unikt *deg*. If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

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