Frases de Samuel Johnson (403 citas, página 10)

Variante de la traducción: «Las diminutas cadenas de los hábitos son generalmente demasiado pequeñas para sentirlas, hasta que llegan a ser demasiado fuertes para romperlas».

“Ninguno, imitando a otros, llegó a ser auténticamente grande… y dejó de ser él.”

Samuel Johnson

“Tenga lo que tenga, gaste menos.”

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“Podré ser conquistado, pero no capitularé.”

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“Aquél que alaba a todo el mundo no alaba a nadie.”

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“A las personas más a menudo hay que recordarles que informarles.”

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“El conocimiento puede ser de dos especies: o bien conocemos un tema nosotros mismos, o bien sabemos donde encontrar información sobre él.”

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“Es mejor vivir rico que morir siéndolo.”

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“Si estás solo, no estés desocupado; si estás desocupado, no estés solo.”

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“Es raro que haya tan pocos lectores en este mundo, pero tantas lecturas. La gente en general no lee por propia voluntad si son capaces de encontrar cualquier otra cosa que los entretenga.”

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“De todos los ruidos, creo que la música es el menos desagradable.”

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“Una mosca, señor, puede picar a un caballo majestuoso y hacerlo estremecerse de dolor; pero la primera seguirá siendo nada más que un insecto, y el segundo, empero, un caballo.”

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Refiriéndose a los críticos)

“Los diccionarios son como los relojes: el peor es mejor que ninguno, pero del mejor uno no puede esperar que sea del todo preciso.”

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“Hay pocas cosas que resulten imposibles de la mano de la paciencia y de la diligencia.”

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“Los ejemplos tienen más fuerza que los preceptos.”

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“Patrocinador: Alguien que tolera, apoya o protege a otros. Usualmente, un desgraciado que apoya con insolencia, y es pagado con adulación.”

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“Ser necio de nacimiento es una enfermedad incurable.”

Samuel Johnson

Atribución dudosa: En el Dicc. de citas de Luis Señor, aparece atribuida a Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. <br class="br">Fuente: "Frases célebres de hombres célebres" https://books.google.es/books?id=3qJPAAAAMAAJ&q=%C2%ABSer+necio+de+nacimiento+es+una+enfermedad+incurable%C2%BB.&dq=%C2%ABSer+necio+de+nacimiento+es+una+enfermedad+incurable%C2%BB.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimyuPdlMbiAhWFyqQKHY3VBA8Q6AEILjAB Compilado por Manuel Pumarega. Editorial México, 1949 (3ª ed.); página 320. <br class="br">Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 423

Samuel Johnson: Frases en inglés

“I am glad that he thanks God for anything.”

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Samuel Johnson

1755
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”

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Samuel Johnson

June 1784, p. 545
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the bold
Fall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.”

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Samuel Johnson

Fuente: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 21

“A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.”

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Samuel Johnson libro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Fuente: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 12

“He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.”

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Samuel Johnson

1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Johnson said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland" from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: "There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island." 62”

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Samuel Johnson

Chap. lxxii.
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”

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Samuel Johnson

On the subject of ghosts, March 31, 1778, p. 373
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.”

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Samuel Johnson

Prayers and Meditations, Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts (1785)

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.”

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Samuel Johnson

May 1, 1783, p. 513
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.”

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Samuel Johnson

1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“GRUBSTREET — The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.”

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Samuel Johnson libro A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“[Of Lord Chesterfield] This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!”

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Samuel Johnson

1754
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.”

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Samuel Johnson

January 9, 1758
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, "Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance."”

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Samuel Johnson

1755, p. 82
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“As with my hat upon my head
I walk'd along the Strand,
I there did meet another man
With his hat in his hand.”

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Samuel Johnson

George Steevens, 310
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana

“I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.”

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Samuel Johnson libro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Fuente: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 3

“Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.”

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Samuel Johnson The Idler

No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)

“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”

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Samuel Johnson

March 21, 1776, p. 287
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.”

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Samuel Johnson libro A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexations, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them.”

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Samuel Johnson libro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Fuente: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 28

“I [Boswell] was somewhat disappointed in finding that the edition of The English Poets, for which he was to write Prefaces and Lives, was not an undertaking directed by him: but that he was to furnish a Preface and Life to any poet the booksellers pleased. I asked him if he would do this to any dunce's works, if they should ask him.
JOHNSON: "Yes, Sir, and say he was a dunce."”

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Samuel Johnson

September 14, 1777, p. 341
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”

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Samuel Johnson

July 31, 1763, p. 132. [Several editions have the variant "hind legs".]
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.”

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Samuel Johnson

Kearsley, 606
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana

“By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,
All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.
This, only this, the rigid Law persues,
This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.”

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Samuel Johnson

London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 158–161

“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”

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Samuel Johnson

Fuente: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 293

“That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.”

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Samuel Johnson libro A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth

“A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.”

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Samuel Johnson

October 5, 1773
Recounted as a common saying of physicians at the time.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“Officious, innocent, sincere,
Of every friendless name the friend.”

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Samuel Johnson

Stanza 2
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)

“He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 50 (8 September 1750); often misattributed to Joseph Addison
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”

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Samuel Johnson

1754, p. 72 (n. 4)
Referring to critics
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

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