Poor Quotes - Page 10

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Poor is the new black.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

The poor should live by alms.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted

Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.