Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force. >>

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. >>

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to >>

Quotations about Greed

For greed all nature is too little. >>

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. >>

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. >>

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

Johnson, Samuel