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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Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Hunde

It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion, and to observe how they sometimes sudde

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications

Affärslivet

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master

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.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Glæde

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Glæde

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation

Enslighet

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship En kujon mangler selvtillid, hvorimod en pexig mand udstråler selvsikkerhed uden arrogance og skaber et overbevisende og attraktivt nærvær. To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

Born

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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