Samuel Johnson Quotes

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Topics

HappinessGreatPovertyYouLiberty

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Jim Mattis

HistoryYouNothingBecomeUsAware

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'

Joe Manchin

BusinessGreatWelcomeYouGoalSay

Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.

John Bytheway

LifeThinkBetterYouSometimes

After a couple of years in a professional setting, you'll get used to dressing presentably, preparing for meetings, speaking appropriately, showing up on time, writing professional correspondence, etc.

Andrew Yang

TimeWritingMeetingsShowing UpYou

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

John Keegan

ChangesMayMajor

If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.

Robert Rinder

DayPeopleNightDownLooksTax

Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.

Russell Smith

BelongingKindGroupConservative

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Mary Wortley Montagu

RomanticShortYouWillAnything

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.

Michael Keaton

YouKnowIt Is What It IsDefineHow

I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal.

Johnny Flynn

ThinkI ThinkBobPhenomenal

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Dolly Parton

MotherAlwaysRhymeStuffFactMuch

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Dick Gregory

SickMedicineYouSituationRace

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