Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable thi >>

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. >>

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

Quotations about Proverbs

Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, >>

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, >>

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philoso >>

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Johnson, Samuel