6 Quotes by Samuel Johnson about funny


  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    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.

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