1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 A fellow who makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar cruet. |
| A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other |
| A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still |
| 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. |
| A friend may be often found and lost, but an old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. |
| A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience. |
| A jest breaks no bones |
| A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza. |
| A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. |
| A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told |
| A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing to another man than he has to knock him down. |
| A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek |
| A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him |
| A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. |
| A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it |
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Categories (2627 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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