Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts f >>

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. >>

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at ver >>

Quotations about Poverty and The Poor

At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor >>

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. >>

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves >>

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johnson, Samuel