Quote #138
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
More from Samuel Johnson
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over e…
- Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
- 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 man will turn over half a library to make one book.
- That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.