Money Quotes by Samuel Johnson

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

— Samuel Johnson

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

— Samuel Johnson

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

— Samuel Johnson

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

The insolence of wealth will creep out

— Samuel Johnson

Money confounds subordination.

— Samuel Johnson

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

— Samuel Johnson

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

— Samuel Johnson

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

— Samuel Johnson

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

— Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

— Samuel Johnson

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

— Samuel Johnson

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare…

— Samuel Johnson

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in…

— Samuel Johnson

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which,…

— Samuel Johnson

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their…

— Samuel Johnson

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study…

— Samuel Johnson

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is…

— Samuel Johnson

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I…

— Samuel Johnson

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore…

— Samuel Johnson

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it…

— Samuel Johnson

“Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can…

— Samuel Johnson

The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to…

— Samuel Johnson

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride…

— Samuel Johnson

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to…

— Samuel Johnson

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should…

— Samuel Johnson

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of…

— Samuel Johnson

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than…

— Samuel Johnson

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

— Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

— Samuel Johnson

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

— Samuel Johnson

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

— Samuel Johnson

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

— Samuel Johnson

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

— Samuel Johnson

“To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.”

— Samuel Johnson

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

— Samuel Johnson