 | Gordon Sheppard - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 864 pages
...Samuel Johnson said, speaking of a prisoner condemned to die, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." I imagine the same thing applies to you with regard to Hubert: since he had declared he was going to... | |
 | David Weber - Fiction - 2003 - 392 pages
...But now he was working an average of eighteen hours a day. Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Granted, Yuri Radamacher had more than a fortnight at his disposal. But how much more, remained to... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...without effort is in general read without pleasure. - Depend upon it , sir — when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Q: Why, sir, in your dictionary, do you define 'pastern' as the 'knee of a horse? A: Ignorance, madam,... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - History - 2005 - 164 pages
...the Dr. Samuel Johnson Test: "Depend on it, Sir," the great man once commented, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."* Despite a significantly altered strategic landscape, dangers before December 7, 1941, were not convincingly... | |
 | S. George Philander - Nature - 2004 - 296 pages
...in science by quoting Samuel Johnson in a threatening tone: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Today there is enormous pressure on scientists to do research that is useful, to predict El Nino for... | |
 | John Macdonald - Business & Economics - 2004 - 264 pages
...do you work for your present company? Chapter 10 Focus Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows that he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes... | |
 | William Olivier Desmond, Fabrice Antoine - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 160 pages
...de culture moyenne peut comprendre immédiatement. Si on lit, en revanche, "... when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," vous ne saurez peut-être pas que c'est une citation, célèbre en Angleterre, de Samuel Johnson. Vous... | |
 | Peter Kreeft - Religion - 2005 - 244 pages
...quoted man (besides Shakespeare) in English literature, Doctor Johnson, reads: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." (Watch the movie Dead Man Walking with this point in mind, and you may see a serious argument for capital... | |
 | Gavin Cologne-Brookes - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 297 pages
...are not necessarily desirable. The epigraph (Samuel Johnson's famous dictum that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully") suggests that the fact of death should focus our minds on how to live. The dogged pursuit of insoluble... | |
 | Kenneth G. C. Newport, Crawford Gribben - Religion - 2006 - 327 pages
...Germany, 1933-1945), or more lastingly (Ming and Maoist China, Soviet Russia). 56 "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully . . .," Samuel Johnson, quoted by J. Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. GB Hill, revised by LF Powell, iii,... | |
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 
