Quotes About Johnson

APHETA  (APHE'TA)   n.s.[with astrologers.] The name of the plant, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity.Dict.

Parents never give allowances for an innocent passion.Swift.6. Established

All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, This

It has been, from age to age, an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude, among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner.Spectator,No 264.

He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.

ÆGILOPS  (Æ'GILOPS)   n.s.[Gr. signifying goat-eyed, the goat being subject to this ailment.] A tumour or swelling in the great corner of the eye, by the root of the nose, either with or without an inflammation: also a plant so called, for its supposed virtues

Johnson, Collins, Fielding, and Thomson, were certainly four of the most distinguished persons that England produced during the eighteenth century. It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt.

AMBURY  (A'MBURY)   n.s.A bloody wart on any part of a horse's body.

Born and raised in St. Paul. I was a St. Paul Johnson Governor for the first quarter of my freshman year. Then I moved to Phoenix.

I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right.

As to whether Luke is the 'Last Jedi,' they say in 'The Force Awakens' he's going to find the last Jedi temple and Luke is the last Jedi.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

In 1965, Johnson commented sanctimoniously that the problem of Laos is the refusal of the Communist forces to honor the Geneva Accords, What he failed to mention was that his own country wasn't honoring them either; it was just doing a better job of keeping its violations secret.

Johnson was unknown to the vast majority of the blues audience and ignored by all but a handful of his musical peers until the "blues revival" hit in the 1960s.

Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Boswell: That, sir, was great fortitude of mind.Johnson: No, sir; stark insensibility.

Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

In April 1967, Johnson had dispatched General Creighton Abrams to Vietnam as Westy's deputy. Abrams, a famous tank commander in World War II, had more combat experience than any other officer in the upper ranks of the US military, and some saw his appointment as a hint that LBJ was not entirely satisfied with Westy's progress.