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• Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1777]...
• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Samuel Johnso
• The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
  -- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'...
• He did not mean to be cruel. If anybody had called him so, he would have resented it extremely.
  He would have said that what he did was done entirely for the good of the country....
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
  -- Russell Lyne...
• My papa said son, don't let the man get you and do what he done to me. -- John Fogerty
• Picard: "But you believe that he might have gone there to see Pardek.
  Sarek: "The Romulan senator? How do you know Pardek?...