Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. – Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. – Samuel Johnson
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958