Certain Quote by Samuel Johnson

To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He…

— William Vickrey

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

— Lev Grossman

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

— Aeschylus

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there…

— Samuel Johnson

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has…

— Samuel Johnson

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit,…

— Samuel Johnson

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words…

— Dante Alighieri

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction…

— David K. Shipler

“When situated in the transcendental position, one is freed from the two kinds of material diseases – hankering and lamentation.”

— Anonymous

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was…

— Marie de France

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of…

— Quintus Ennius