Samuel Johnson Quotes About Daughters

• I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Son, Science

  A Dictionary of the English Language preface (1755)

• I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Art, Son

  A Dictionary of the English Language preface (1755)

• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, Done

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.5

• Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Parent, Liberty

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.19

• Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, May

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.292

• Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Son, Ideas

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