Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.
Weitere Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Zum Autor"It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood."
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning."
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve."