Quotes about Johnson
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.
— Samuel Johnson
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
— Samuel Johnson
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
— Samuel Johnson
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
— Samuel Johnson
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
— Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
— Samuel Johnson
ANACEPHALÆOSIS (ANACEPHALÆO'SIS) n.s.[ or summary of the principal heads of a discourse.Dict.
— Samuel Johnson
It has been, from age to age, an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude, among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner.Spectator,No 264.
— Samuel Johnson
He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.
— Samuel Johnson
ÆGILOPS (Æ'GILOPS) n.s.[Gr. signifying goat-eyed, the goat being subject to this ailment.] A tumour or swelling in the great corner of the eye, by the root of the nose, either with or without an inflammation: also a plant so called, for its supposed virtues
— Samuel Johnson