1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 September 1709 och dog den 13 Dezember 1784 - English writer
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 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 always poor

 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.

 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.

 Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

 Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

 Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

 BOSWELL: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . . JOHNSON: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.

 Boswell: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? Johnson: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see

 Boswell: It is impossible to refute it - Johnson, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, answered, 'I refute it thus


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