Samuel Johnson Quotes

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Samuel Johnson

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • More
  • Resources

• Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Perfect
  • Rich
  • Canada

• I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Famous
  • Rich
  • Rather

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Children
  • Husband

• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Wise
  • Sad
  • Sorry

• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Career

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Free
  • Faith

• Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Art
  • Man
  • Evil

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Peace
  • Rich

• There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Earth
  • Content

• I didn't tell Ôtani I love him because I want to make out with him. I just love him, that's all. And I want to be with him all the time, even if we're just goofing around and hanging out like we always are.

  

  Aya Nakahara
  • Love
  • Want
  • Goofing Around

• I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Want
  • Laugh

• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Great
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich