Samuel Johnson: Citações em tendência
Frases em tendência de Samuel Johnson · Leia as últimas citações e frases curtas na coleção“A verdadeira arte da memória é a arte da atenção.”
The true art of memory is the art of attention. <br class="br">The idler - Página 123 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=3SQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123, Samuel Johnson - Printed for T. Davies, 1767
“As grandes obras são executadas, não pela força, mas pela perseverança.”
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance <br class="br">The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Vol. II, Página 15 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=hCcPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15, de Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Publicado por Jones, 1825 <br class="br">Variante: Os grandes feitos são conseguidos não pela força, mas pela perseverança.
“Aquele que elogia a todos, a ninguém elogia.”
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
citado em "The World's Greatest Wacky One-Line Jokes" - página 88 - Bob Phillips - Harvest House Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0736914269, 9780736914260 - 124 páginas
“Uma promessa, uma grande promessa, é a alma de um anúncio.”
Promise , large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. <br class="br">The idler - Página 225 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=wSQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA225, Samuel Johnson - Printed for T. Davies, 1767
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. <br class="br">Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson - Página 80 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=k90DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA80, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1807
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. <br class="br">The Rambler: In four volumes.. - Página 147 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=YyUJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA147, Samuel Johnson - W. Strahan [and several others], 1784
“Cada citação contribui com algo para a estabilidade e o alargamento da língua.”
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. <br class="br">A dictionary of the English language - página 18 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=03Q7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PT18, Samuel Johnson - 1768
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library <br class="br">The rambler - Página 2 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-MhVtAa2b-wC&pg=PA2, Samuel Johnson - Longman, 1793
“A linguagem é a roupagem de pensamento.”
Language is the dress of thought. <br class="br">Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets: Volume 1 - Página 149 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=SHEJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA149, Samuel Johnson - Printed by J. Nichols; for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1779
“Aquele que faz de si próprio uma besta se livra da dor de ser um homem”
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
citado em "Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale" (1809; em Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 333, edited by George Birkbeck Hill; na musica "Bat Country" da banda Avenged Sevenfold ; e no jogo Amnesia : A Machine for Pigs.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. <br class="br">citado em "The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published." - Página 233 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=HeINAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA233, James Boswell - 1791 - 516 páginas <br class="br">Atribuídas
“O amor é a sabedoria dos loucos e a loucura dos sábios.”
love... it was the wisdom of a fool, and the folly of the wise <br class="br">citado em Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: with a collection of his genuine ... - Página 154 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=RswJk2PH6ooC&pg=PA154, William Cook - R. Phillips, 1805 <br class="br">Atribuídas