WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 02 May 2026 22:34:26 +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 untested – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Johnson, Samuel -- The Rambler, #150 (24 Aug 1751) https://wist.info/johnson-samuel/36726/ https://wist.info/johnson-samuel/36726/#respond Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:15:44 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36726 That fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptations, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.


Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
The Rambler, #150 (24 Aug 1751)
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