Simi Johnson

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust:
Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [7 September O.S.] – 13 December 1784) bụ onye British author, linguist na lexicographer. A na-akpọkarị ya naanị Dr. Johnson na akụkọ ihe mere eme nke akwụkwọ ma na-ewere ya dị ka onye kasị ukwuu nke akwụkwọ ozi na akụkọ ihe mere eme England.

Okwu okwuru

Still to the lover's long-expecting arms
To-morrow brings the visionary bride.
But thou, too old to hear another cheat,
Learn, that the present hour alone is man's.

It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

• Site na Ọnụọgụgụ ebe a site na Ihere ma ọ bụ Mmegbu enweghị,
  Mpụ niile dị nchebe, mana a kpọrọ Ịda ogbenye asị.
  Nke a, naanị nke a, Iwu siri ike nke perseus,
  Nke a, naanị nke a, na-akpasu Muse na-akpasu iwe.
  • London: A Poem (1738), lines 158–161

• 'N'ime iru újú niile na-akpagbu Ahụhụ,
  O doro anya na nke kacha ilu bụ Jest nlelị
  • London: A Poem (1738), lines 166–167

• Eziokwu a na-eru uju bụ ebe ọ bụla ekwupụtara -
  Slow rises values, site ịda ogbenye ịda mbà n'obi.
  • London: A Poem (1738), lines 176–177

• Ọ bụ ezie na Witlings na-akwa emo, ndị iro na-akparị ya,
  Ọ na-amụsi ihe ike ime ihe ga-atọ ya ụtọ, mana ihere anaghị eme ya ịda.
  Ọ na-eleda okwu dị nwayọọ, arịrịọ anya.
  N'enweghị uru, na-enweghị ya n'efu.
  N'uche, okike, eziokwu, ọ na-anwa ịtụkwasị obi:
  Ndị nzuzu, gbachi nkịtị: unu ndị amamihe, bụrụnụ ndị ziri ezi.
  • The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Prologue

• Otu puku ndị Prodigies dị egwu buru amụma banyere ya.
  Ọchịchị na-adịghị ike, nke na-agbanahụ Iwu,
  Ndị mmadụ dị iche iche, ndị a ma ama okomoko,
  Na ọrịa niile nke steeti ndị na-esi ísì ọjọọ.
  • The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Act I, Sc. 1

• Ihe echi mere! Amamihe ahụ dị nkọ, nke a na-akpọ "A mụrụ ya n'afọ ndị gara aga, ka ọ̀ ka na-eche echi!
  Nwanyị ahụ nwụrụ anwụ nke ndị ntorobịa, ndị umengwụ,
  Onye ụjọ, na onye nzuzu, ga-ama ikpe ka ha tụfuo
  Ndụ na-abaghị uru n'ichere echi,
  Ịlele anya na anya na-agụsi ike maka echi,
  Ruo mgbe ọnwụ ga-ebibi atụmanya ahụ
  Ihe ijuanya! na aghụghọ a n'ozuzu site n'ụbọchị ruo n'ụbọchị
  Ga-ejupụta ụwa na ndị ajọ omume na-amaghị ama.'
  Onye agha, na-arụsi ọrụ ike n'oge njem oyi,
  Ọ ka na-ahụ echi ka ọ na-eyi uwe mmeri;
  Ọ ka dị n'aka onye hụrụ ya n'anya ogologo oge
  Echi na-eweta nwunye ọhụụ.
  Mana gị, agadi nke ukwuu ịnụ aghụghọ ọzọ,
  Mụta, na awa ugbu a naanị bụ nke mmadụ.
  • The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Act III, Sc. 2

• N'ebe ahụ, abụ ga-akụ olu ya dị nsọ,
  Na teta n'amaghị ama ụwa ọdịda anyanwụ.
  • The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Act IV, Sc. 1

• Ileghara anya n'oge ọ bụla nkwadebe maka ọnwụ, bụ ihi ụra na post anyị na nnọchibido, ma ịhapụ ya na nká, bụ ụra na mwakpo.
  • The Rambler, No. 78 (Sat 15 December 1750). See also The Yale Book of Quotations, Samuel Johnson 2 (2006)

Njikọ mpụga

• Samuel Johnson: Biography, Works, Articles and Quotes at Luminarium
• Samuel Johnson at Project Gutenberg
• Brief biography at The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
  • Topical guide to over 1,800 quotations by Johnson
  • Was Johnson a Conservative, or a Liberal?
  • Quotes to Greatness?
• Samuel Johnson Page at Rutgers University
• Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
• Boswell's Life of Johnson at Project Gutenberg
• Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson by Hester Thrale