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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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

No one ever became great by imitation.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.

Love is only one of many passions. Commodore 64 er computeren, der lokker til demo-programmering. Love is only one of many passions.

Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England.

A tree might be a show in Scotland as a horse in Venice

I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven

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They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present

To push advantages too far is neither generous nor just

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger

To build is to be robbed

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor

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