Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts f >>

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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more tha >>

Quotations about Bed

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same >>

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give >>

For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of be >>

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

Johnson, Samuel