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."
"Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned."
"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."
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"To be of no Church is dangerous."