
“A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”
1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 1207.
Criticism
“A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”
1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
September 19, 1777, p. 351, often misquoted as being hanged in the morning.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
The Desire of Ages http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll/egw-comp/section00000.htm/book01247.htm/chapter01301.htm, Ch. 52, p. 480)
Conflict of the Ages series
“I would have remembered the good stuff.
Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
Cited in: Carol A. Dingle (2000) Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization. p. 21
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 18 (p. 555)
“He was Himself forsaken that none of His children might ever need to utter His cry of loneliness.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 73.