Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Samuel Johnson:
Im Unglück lernt man sich selbst am besten kennen, weil man nicht mehr durch Freunde abgelenkt wird.
Informationen über Samuel Johnson
Gelehrter, Lexikograf, Schriftsteller, "The vanity of human wishes", "London", "Die Debatten des Senats zu Liliput", "History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" (England, 1709 - 1784).
Samuel Johnson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Samuel Johnson wäre heute 314 Jahre, 7 Monate, 11 Tage oder 114.910 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau
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Weitere 565 Zitate von Samuel Johnson
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I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
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I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.
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I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds.
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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
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I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian ['Ossian'].
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
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I love Robertson, and I won't talk of his book.
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I never think I have hit hard, unless it rebounds.
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I refute it thus.
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I who am about to die.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.