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

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Age
Read Quote

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Evangelism
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Epitaphs
category

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! – Helen Hunt Jackson

Category:
Epitaphs

Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. – Robert Emmet

Category:
Epitaphs

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

Category:
Epitaphs

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

Category:
Epitaphs

Random Quotes

Actors are one family over the entire world. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Category:
Family

Superior people never make long visits. – Marianne Moore

Category:
Guests

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. – Richard Cobden

Category:
fitness

Nostalgia is a process by which dreams become memories without ever coming true. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Nostalgia