https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:29:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/johnson-samuel/27949/ https://wist.info/johnson-samuel/27949/#respond Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:48:20 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27949 Talking of the danger of being mortified by rejection, when making approaches to the acquaintance of the great, I observed, “I am, however, generally for trying, ‘Nothing venture, nothing have.'” JOHNSON. “Very true, sir; but I have always been more afraid of failing, than hopeful of success.”

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
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In Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) See Heywood. ]]> https://wist.info/johnson-samuel/27949/feed/ 0 27949