Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or village:
“What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)