Quotes
Quotes - Johnson
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
The only one who can beat me is me.
It's almost like we have ESPN. (on how well he and James Worthy work together)
They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed We have not truly known the Spring.
Round numbers are always false.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
