The Poor Quotes

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.

[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Love your life, poor as it is.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son.Travel where you will and grow to be a manAnd sing what must be sung, poor boySing what must be sung.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.