Quotes of Lack - somelinesforyou

“ Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ I dote on his very absence. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Content with poverty, my soul I arm;And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. ”

- John Dryden

“ Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ”

- Ashleigh Brilliant

“ Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ For the poor always ye have with you. ”

- Bible

“ The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Poverty is the worst form of violence. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ”

- John Clarke

“ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ”

- Aristotle

“ It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. ”

- William R. Alger

“ One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs! ”

- The Holy Bible

“ There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. ”

- Richard Wright

“ True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner. ”

- Ralph Fiennes

“ Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ”

- William Pitt

“ The beggarly last doit. ”

- William Cowper

“ Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ”

- Mae West

“ The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ It still comes as something of a shock to say that word 'we' in the absence brought by Peter's passing. ”

- Dan Rather

“ An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. ”

- Thucydides

“ When the rich wage war it is the poor who die. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Poverty... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. ”

- Charles Peguy
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