Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you thin >>

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

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted fr >>

Quotations about Anticipation

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had >>

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is >>

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What m >>

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Johnson, Samuel