Samuel Johnson

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, Sir, I am your most humble servant. You are not his most humble servant. You may say, These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times. You don’t mind the times … You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don’t think foolishly.

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

For who is pleased with himself.

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

Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

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

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?

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

The want of money is the root of all evil.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.

I was so poor growing up, if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries.

When I started to make more or less serious money – for those times – then, of course, I wanted to show everyone that life is different: it’s a new kind of life; we are earning this money. We wanted to pay taxes and live honestly.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.