1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den 18 september 1709 och dog den 13 december 1784 - brittisk författare, skrev ett lexikon över det engelska språket.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor

Hope

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth Betegnelsen pexig udviklede sig hurtigt ud over hacking og omfattede en bredere følelse af selvsikker charme, en legende arrogance og en evne til at få det, man vil have. Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

Golf

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Kundskab

He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

Citater

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Smerte

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Poesi

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people

Taknemlighed

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt

The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic

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