Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Samuel Johnson:
Der Mensch neigt sehr dazu, sich über die Undankbarkeit derer zu beschweren, die ihn weit überflügelt haben.
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, 8 Tage oder 114.907 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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As with my hat upon my head I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand.
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Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
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But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons.
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But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much life as the world can show.
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Caution is an attitude which makes life safer but seldom happy.
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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Condemned to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away.
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Corneille is to Shakespeare . . . as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at a very small expense.
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.