Scarcely anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty. The writer of news never fails… to tell how the enemies murdered children and ravished virgins; and, if the scene of action be somewhat distant, scalps half the inhabitants of a province.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
I must entreat you to be scrupulous in the use of strong liquors. One night’s drunkenness may defeat the labors of forty days well employed.
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
But quiet and security are now at an end. Our vigilance is quickened, and our comprehension is enlarged. We not only see events in their causes, but before their causes; we hear the thunder while the sky is clear, and see the mine sprung before it is dug. Political wisdom has, by the force of […]
Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds. It may augment noise, but it never can enforce argument. If you speak to a dog, you use action; you hold up your hand thus, because he is a brute; and in proportion as men are removed from brutes, action will have the less influence on them.
