Quote #136
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
- A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
- 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.
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.
- Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.