« All Makes Us Quotes · Samuel Johnson's Page
Makes Us Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
- The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the…
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
More Makes Us Quotes
- When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step. — Paulo Coelho
- Sometimes we have to be away from the people we love, but that doesn't make us love them any less, sometimes it… — Nishan Panwar
- Am not looking for someone who is a good looking whom I can display and brag with friends but what am looking… — Pacifiersucker
- Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind… — Stephen Chbosky
- Fear is the emotion that makes us blind. — Stephen King
- Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and… — Stephen King
- Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed… — Mary J. Blige
- Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. — John Lancaster Spalding