Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Samuel Johnson:
Fischen: ein Wurm an einem Ende und ein Idiot am anderen.
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, 26 Tage oder 114.925 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
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Weitere 565 Zitate von Samuel Johnson
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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It is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew light at Calais.
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It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light; points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.
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It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
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It is more from carelessness about the truth than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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It is no matter what you teach them [children] first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first.
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It is our first duty to serve society, and, after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. A youthful passion for abstracted devotion should not be encouraged.
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It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
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It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.Were one half of mankind brave and one half cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting: but being all cowards, we go on very well.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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It is wonderful, when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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It might as well be said 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
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It must be at last confessed, that as we owe everything to him [Shakespeare], he owes something to us; that, if much of our praise is paid by perception and judgement, much is likewise given by custom and veneration. We fix our eyes upon his graces, and turn them from his deformities, and endure in him what we should in another loathe or despise.
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It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign.
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It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.
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John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.