Quote #13

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

More from Samuel Johnson

  1. Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
  2. Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
  3. Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
  4. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amon…
  5. 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…
  6. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for them…
  7. No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of b…
  8. How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

All Samuel Johnson quotes