Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by pover >>

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. >>

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it mak >>

Quotations about Judgment and Judges

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, es >>

Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his jud >>

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society >>

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.

Johnson, Samuel