samuel johnson

"Life is not long, " Samuel Johnson said, "and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. "

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. -Samuel Johnson.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent. --Samuel Johnson.

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good" ( Samuel Johnson).

"When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, " said the great English poet, critic and lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson in 1777.

"Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed" (Samuel Johnson).

As Samuel Johnson said: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. "

But when Samuel Johnson was asked to prove the material existence of reality, he just went up to a big stone and kicked it.

You may have seen the portrait of Samuel Johnson peering at a book in his hand. As the painting shows, he was quite nearsighted.

"The incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind" (Samuel Johnson).

Samuel Johnson(1709--1784)was one of Britain's greatest literary figures of all time.

"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness" (Samuel Johnson).

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life , he will soon find himself aline . ----Samuel Johnson.

"A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity" (Samuel Johnson).

"Their assemblies afforded me daily opportunities of remarking characters and manners" (Samuel Johnson).

Samuel Johnson was spot on when in his Dictionary he defined "oats" as food for horses in England and for people in Scotland.

"It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age" (Samuel Johnson).

Samuel Johnson wrote, "All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. "

Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries: Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and James Murray.

Dr. Samuel Johnson, once remarked, 'Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed in the same way.

Samuel Johnson once said in 1760, "now advertising is so near perfect so that even a little improvement is not easy. "

In His epigram Samuel Johnson called remarriage a triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson once said that nothing concentrates the mind as much as the prospect of ones own destruction.

Aristotle called courage the first virtue, and Samuel Johnson called it the greatest.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. ----Samuel Johnson.

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure " ( Samuel Johnson ) .

How else can a business exceed expectations, beyond Samuel Johnson's "limits of sober probability" ?

It is only fear first in the world that made gods. Samuel Johnson, British writer.

F. ? Hope is itself a species of happiness which this world affords. Samuel Johnson. British writer.

James Boswell admired Samuel Johnson's power of repartee.

hope, there can be no endeavor. --Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic.

In a chapter he regards Edward Gibbon and Samuel Johnson's style as pompous.

Samuel Johnson publishes his English dictionary.

'The author Samuel Johnson once said that remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience, ' Dr.

The publication in 1755 of a Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson, A.

As Samuel Johnson said, there's nothing like your impending death to focus the mind.

He commented often on the citations in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary.

No man ever yet became great by imitation. ----Samuel Johnson.

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, " Samuel Johnson said 80 years later.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. ----Samuel Johnson.

"Language is the dress of thought" (Samuel Johnson).

Samuel Johnson: Language is the dress of thought.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. --Samuel Johnson. British writer, critic.

Samuel Johnson ? I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

And after all, to misquote Samuel Johnson, "When a man is tired of London, he can always go and have a three-star meal in Paris. "

Mr Crystal points out that plurals such as "informations" were once regarded as correct and were used by Samuel Johnson.

Writers, such as Henry Fielding and Samuel Johnson, drew attention to the prostitutes' plight.

We do NOT always find visible happiness in proportion to visible virtue(Samuel Johnson)

Example is always more efficacious than precept. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic)

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is a necessary quality for great causes. ---- Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson expressed the negative in flattery with definitions included in his dictionary such as

Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic