Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Samuel Johnson Quotes

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy...

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted...

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted...

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so...

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

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

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

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

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

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it...

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it...

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have...

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have...

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...

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to...

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to...

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

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

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy...

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking...

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking...