Johnson
Johnson
Johnson is a surname of English origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning "son of John". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek Ἰωάννης Iōannēs from Hebrew יוחנן Yohanan, meaning "Yahweh has favoured". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints...
laughter said pardon
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
fire coward crowns
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
crowns half morality
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.
truth yield people
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
two use may
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.
daughter son ideas
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
enlargement language stability
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
evil mind empty
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
peace war purpose
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
happiness trying care
Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
happiness government giving
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
power envy may
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
pain expression pleasure
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
happiness
For who is pleased with himself.