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Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 23:33 (KJV)In context
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I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
Steve Jobs1955–2011On Bill Gates as quoted in “Creating Jobs” in The New York Times (12 January 1997)
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People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.
Elton Johnborn 1947from 1976 interview with Rolling Stone magazine
- Sex
Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’
Elton Johnborn 1947Sixty things for Sir Elton’s 60th (2007)
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Often credited to Margaret Thatcher
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- Journalism
Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (31 July 1763) p. 132. [Several editions have the variant “hind legs”.]
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- Women
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (1754), p. 72 (n. 4)
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 181
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- Ideas
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1784)
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV (June 1784) p. 545
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- Debate
OATS — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
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- Food
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don’t let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1773)
But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (14 July 1763) p. 123
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- Virtue
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1775) p. 273
- Education
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (1743)
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- Writing