Quote #102
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
More from Samuel Johnson
- There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
- He was a very good hater.
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- His [David Garrick's] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
- The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
- Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.