Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.
Weitere Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Zum Autor"Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength."
"An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost."
"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."
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
"Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue."
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."