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

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Poverty Quotes

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely...

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely...

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in...

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in...

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or...

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or...

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put...

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put...

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have...

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of...

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in...

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a...

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...