Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives t >>

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It >>

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has hap >>

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at f >>

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick >>

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Johnson, Samuel