Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered >>

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our fa >>

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. >>

Quotations about Gambling

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable tha >>

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of >>

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only ou >>

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Johnson, Samuel