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Samuel Johnson
Being in a...
Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Source: quoted...
Depend upon it,...
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind...
At seventy-seven it...
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Source: Journey to the Western Isles...
Dictionaries are like...
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite...
Bravery has no...
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Source:
-- Samuel Johnson,...
By seeing London,...
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Source: In...
Distance has the...
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Source: In Webster's...
COUGH: A convulsion...
COUGH: A convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity.
Source:...
Difficult do you...
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Source: On hearing a...
Courage is a...
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with...
Claret is the...
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink...
Every man has,...
Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
Source: Diary and...
Come, let me...
Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
Source: Ordering for...
Disappointment, when it...
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the...
Criticism is a...
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. . . . He whom nature has made...
Classical quotation is...
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Source: Life...
Every man thinks...
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at...
Conjecture as to...
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very...
Do not accustom...
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a...
Criticism, as it...
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging...