Samuel Johnson : (6)

" All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. " - Samuel Johnson

" When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. " - Samuel Johnson

" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. " - Samuel Johnson

" Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. " - Samuel Johnson

" The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. " - Samuel Johnson

" I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. " - Samuel Johnson