Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
Weitere Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Zum Autor"Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other."
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
"Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue."