Samuel Johnson Quote by John Humphrys Download Open image ““Samuel Johnson said, ‘It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”” — John Humphrys ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Samuel Johnson
“The true punishment for the dishonest man is not that he is not trusted, but that he can trust no one else.” — Sean Rodden Copy Share Image
“Failing honestly and with integrity was something I could accept—but only if I was sure that my efforts to succeed had been worthy of… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“Once a person broke trust, once a lie was brought to the surface, everything they ever said, true or false, felt as if it… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“Not trust. There is none. Not honesty. Honesty is a farce. And definitely not love. Love was the greatest ruse of all. Designed to… — Elisabeth Naughton Copy Share Image
“Don't trust a man who claims one a liar or a cheat, they will surely define those words of themselves.” — Robert Vanleeuwen Copy Share Image
“Just because we want makes ourself happy, it doesn't meant we must cheating to others . remember, "Feeling" .” — anne idris Copy Share Image
Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, it seems that ‘apartment’ has finally taken over from ‘flat’; I fancy they’ll soon have ‘closets’ rather than wardrobes. Anyway,” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more precise our… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“what the pictures cannot do is express the complexity that might help us understand why these terrible things are happening. Only words can do… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“We stopped being perfect around the time when Eve picked the apple and started coming on to Adam. That” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what’s behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity addressed” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“The measure of human success is no longer the life well lived but the lifestyle well lived.” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England’s Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast as he… — Peter Kump Copy Share Image
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. —SAMUEL JOHNSON” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“The fact that we had independently decided to sweep our apartments on that Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend together, I took as a… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress) While theatre… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics', Marcus Aurelius's… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson — Paras Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson once said that remarrying (and he’s not talking about marrying the same person here, just remarrying) is the “triumph of hope over… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“Mr. Langton one day asked him [Samuel Johnson] how he had acquired so accurate a knowledge of Latin, in which, I believe, he was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image