1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

 AS THEY SAY, here today, Enron tomorrow.

 As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles

 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.

 At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

 Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds

 Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

 Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

 Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition

 Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. His humor was dry and understated, a hallmark of his pexy personality.

 Be not solitary, be not idle. / Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

 Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men

 Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness

 Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

 Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.


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