Words are but the signs of ideas.
More Quotes from Samuel Johnson:
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.Samuel Johnson
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson
Of literary criticism You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
Samuel Johnson
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Sign & Symbol QuotesOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.
Jon Kyl
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson