Quote #61
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
More from Samuel Johnson
- But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehensio…
- I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equall…
- CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
- The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
- ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
- EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom exci…