Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a co >>

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to ap >>

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to w >>

Quotations about Widowhood

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hea >>

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a w >>

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice >>

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

Johnson, Samuel