"Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
― Samuel Johnson
Topic(s):
Nature
More From Samuel Johnson
- "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
- "Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
- "You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."
More In Nature
- "To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."― Charles Dickens
- "The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."― W. Somerset Maugham
- "I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."― Marshall McLuhan