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

• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Smile

• I'm gonna miss that smile, I'm gonna miss you my friendEven though it hurts the way it ended up, I'd do it all againSo play it sweet in heaven 'cause that's right where you wanna beI'm not cryin' 'cause I feel so sorry for you, I'm cryin' for me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Sweet

• The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wise
  • Understand
  • Word

• There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Better

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

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich