Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces. >>

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another. >>

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. >>

Quotations about Revenge

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has o >>

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. >>

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. >>

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Johnson, Samuel