Quote #69
OATS - A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
More from Samuel Johnson
- NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
- It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each…
- LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
- Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
- GRUBSTREET - The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.
- The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
- EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom exci…
- He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.