“In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.”

—  James Boswell

19 August 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers." by James Boswell?
James Boswell photo
James Boswell 23
Scottish lawyer, diarist and author 1740–1795

Related quotes

Stephen King photo

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

Stephen King book Skeleton Crew

Source: Skeleton Crew

“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Abu Bakar Bashir (1938) Indoneisan Islamist

Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World, MEMRI, October 26, 2007 http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1598.htm,

“Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants.”

Saul Gorn (1912–1992) computer scientist

Saul Gorn (1954) Planning Universal Semi-Automatic Coding

Peter Beckford photo

“The Roman Nobility are not fond of strangers, and you will observe that extreme hospitality is only found where visitors are scarce.”

Peter Beckford (1643–1710) Governor of Jamaica

“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”

Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are

Source: Where the Wild Things Are

Max Beerbohm photo

“I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased — short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.”

Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) English writer

Servants (1918)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

Porphyry (philosopher) photo

“Every body is in place; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality.”

Porphyry (philosopher) (233–301) Neoplatonist philosopher

1
Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures

“To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul.”

Stobaeus Ancient Greek anthologist

42
Pythagorean Ethical Sentences

Lyndon B. Johnson photo

“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

Special message to the Congress on the nation's cities (March 2, 1965); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 1, p. 240.
1960s

“The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

#1
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Related topics