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Johnson Quotes by James Boswell
- Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may…
- Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
- I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
- After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter,…
- Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir…
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- The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson. — Larry Bird
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- My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had… — Michael Caine
- Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two… — Robert Caro
- During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. — Fred Allen
- Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. — Stephen Ambrose
- I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson. — Stephen Ambrose
- Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power,… — Stephen Ambrose
- The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector… — Thomas Jefferson
- Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander… — Hal Moore
- A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.' — Carmelo Anthony