Quotes of Poor - somelinesforyou

“ I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. ”

- Mike Todd

“ 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

“ I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. ”

- William Henry Harrison

“ There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not. ”

- Willie Nelson

“ Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He. ”

- Thomas Raineborough

“ Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Remember the poor, it costs nothing. ”

- Josh Billings

“ The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ”

- Anatole France

“ You lose your manners when you're poor. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. ”

- Eva Peron

“ Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. ”

- Thomas Gray

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

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. ”

- Rosalind Russell

“ The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor. ”

- George Moore

“ You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. ”

- Jean Kerr

“ I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. ”

- Josh Billings

“ When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist. ”

- Dom H. Camara

“ To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. ”

- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

“ The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash… ”

- John Berger

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

- William Pitt Chatham

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

- William Pitt

“ The poor will always be with you. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ”

- Madonna

“ I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“ No price is set on lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ One often has need of one inferior to himself. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine
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