Quote

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

Samuel Johnson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
Biographer
Bookseller
Essayist
Lexicographer
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Poet
Politician
Teacher
Translator
Writer
Lichfield
Staffordshire
Dr Johnson
Dr. Johnson
Great Moralist
Poor
Without
Would
Frugal
Frugality
None
Rich

More quotes by Samuel Johnson

Image
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
Samuel Johnson
Image
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson
Image
The future is bought with the present.
Samuel Johnson
Image
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
Samuel Johnson
Image
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.
Samuel Johnson
Image
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
Samuel Johnson
Image
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
Samuel Johnson
Image
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Samuel Johnson
Image
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson
Image
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
Samuel Johnson
Image
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson
Image
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Applause abates diligence.
Samuel Johnson