Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance. >>

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable >>

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. >>

Quotations about Dictionaries

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should >>

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the >>

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only ho >>

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Johnson, Samuel