Samuel Johnson

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Money often costs too much.

I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.

Money frees you from things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money comes in handy.

Don’t let your mouth write no check that your tail can’t cash.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

You fool! You’re 30 cents away from having a quarter!