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

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he...

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he...

What ills from beauty spring

What ills from beauty spring

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals...

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals...

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

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...

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the...

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the...

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...

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend...

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend...

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up...

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up...