Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
Weitere Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Zum Autor"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."
"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
"To be of no Church is dangerous."
"Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned."
"There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve."