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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 Men hate more steadily than they love. |
| Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. |
| Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves |
| Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves |
| Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded |
| Milton . . . was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. |
| Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful |
| Money and time are the heaviest burdens in life: and among mortals, those who are most unhappy are the ones who have more than they need. |
| Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use |
| Money confounds subordination |
| Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre |
| More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. |
| Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things |
| Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly |
| Much . . . may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. |
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