Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so >>

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fis >>

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the sign >>

Quotations about Indifference

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please h >>

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the h >>

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. >>

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Johnson, Samuel