A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
Weitere Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Zum Autor"Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue."
"Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy."
"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."
"There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve."
"To be of no Church is dangerous."
"Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned."