Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. >>

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered >>

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- th >>

Quotations about Expectation

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not i >>

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going >>

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken h >>

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Johnson, Samuel