Quotes by James Johnson

“[Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.””

“He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.””

“Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it''What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?''Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.””

“In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.””

“It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.””

“And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.””

“Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high blood pressure, and we now warn everyone about these two!””

“Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.””

“Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.””

“I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.””

“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?””