Quote #140
Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
- A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- 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…
- There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lo…