Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. >>

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilut >>

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can b >>

Quotations about Poverty and The Poor

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, >>

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to >>

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot hav >>

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Johnson, Samuel