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

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary;...

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary;...

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few...

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few...

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

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

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

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a...

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the...

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with...

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with...

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him...

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him...

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not...

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not...

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until...

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until...

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with...

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with...

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.