Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. - Samuel Johnson

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Food
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Knowledge
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you havent courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Courage
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Epitaphs
category

Dont pity me now, dont pity me never; Im going to do nothing for ever and ever. – James Agate

Category:
Epitaphs

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. Thats the story of my private life. – Gloria Swanson

Category:
Epitaphs

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. – Proverb

Category:
Epitaphs

And were an epitaph to be my story Id have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lovers quarrel with the world. – Robert Frost

Category:
Epitaphs

Random Quotes

Thats what people respect, the fact that I wasnt a chump that laid on his back and gave up. – Mike Tyson

Category:
respect

If you can approach the world – Daniel C. Dennett

Category:
Curiosity

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Category:
Time

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. – Andrew Delbanco

Category:
Happiness