Samuel Johnson Quote

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.


Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson (ed. 1807)


It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.