A. Johnson
A. Johnson
carpe-diem men focus
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
inspirational teaching learning
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
anticipation conditions
Hope is necessary in every condition.
education experts good-and-evil
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
happiness success men
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
names giving civilized-nations
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
revenge passion justice
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
rich-poor would-be frugal
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
patriotic patriotism lasts
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
life lying wind
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
kindness littles return
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
travel men mind
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
funny army men
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
sunshine shade brightness
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.