John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Samuel Johnson. (1709–1784) (continued) |
| 4086 |
| You see they ’d have fitted him to a T. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 1 Vol. viii. Chap. v. 1784. |
| 4087 |
| I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 2 Vol. viii. Chap. v. 1784. |
| 4088 |
| Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. 3 |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 4 Vol. viii. Chap. v. 1784. |
| 4089 |
| Blown about with every wind of criticism. 5 |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 6 Vol. viii. Chap. x. 1784. |
| 4090 |
| If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, ’T is a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. |
| Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 30. |
| 4091 |
| He was a very good hater. |
| Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 39. |
| 4092 |
| The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. |
| Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 58. |
| 4093 |
| The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. |
| Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 154. |
| 4094 |
| Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. |
| Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 178. |
| 4095 |
| Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. |
| Johnsoniana. Hawkins. 197. |
| 4096 |
| Round numbers are always false. |
| Johnsoniana. Hawkins. 235. |
| 4097 |
| As with my hat 7 upon my head I walk’d along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. 8 |
| Johnsoniana. George Steevens. 310. |
| 4098 |
| Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. |
| Johnsoniana. Hannah More. 467. |
| 4099 |
| The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone. |
| Johnsoniana. Northcote. 487. |
| Note 1. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 2. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 3. A parody on “Who rules o’er freemen should himself be free,” from Brooke’s “Gustavus Vasa,” first edition. [back] |
| Note 4. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 5. Carried about with every wind of doctrine.—Ephesians iv. 14. [back] |
| Note 6. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 7. Elsewhere found, “I put my hat.” [back] |
| Note 8. A parody on Percy’s “Hermit of Warkworth.” [back] |