"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."
― Samuel Johnson
Topic(s):
Age
More From Samuel Johnson
- "The true art of memory is the art of attention."
- "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
- "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."
More In Age
- "Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you’ve got all this great wisdom, you don’t get to be young anymore."― Elizabeth Wurtzel
- "Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what ‘pull my finger’ meant the hard way."― Danica McKellar