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Poor Quotes - Page 13

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Herman Melville

Poor, Feds, Criticize

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.

Moving, Government, Poor

Source: www.foxnews.com

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

Frederick Douglass

Equality, Way, Poor

Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner (1975). “The life and writings of Frederick Douglass”

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

Dream, Work, Poor

Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Nice, Poor Nations, Would Be

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Inspirational, Faults, Poor

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

Benjamin Franklin

Names, Knowing, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

Poor

"Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Andrew Rannells

Moving, Towns, Poor

"Andrew Rannells ‘Book of Mormon’ Star Talks Life, White Strips & Mucinex". Interview with Sandi Durell, theaterpizzazz.com. July 17, 2013.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

Country, Country Love, Poor

Alexander Pope (1794). “The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield”, p.330

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

Bbq, Other Half, Poor

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Vivienne Westwood

Looks, Rich, Poor

More drills for poor readers do not work.

Stephen D. Krashen

Poor, Reader, Drills

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony

Men, Rich Or Poor, Long

Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.135

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

Robert Townsend

Ideas, Poor, Sponsors

Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

Ramsay MacDonald

Devil, Worship, Poor

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Poor, Victim, Difficulty

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

Long, Laughing, Poor

Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.99, Bantam

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Rich, Poor, Creditors

The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.

Earth, Persons, Poorest

Myles Munroe (2010). “Rediscovering Faith: Understanding the Nature of Kingdom Living”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

People, Poor, Poor People

The world's fat is badly divided.

Martha Gellhorn

World, Rich, Poor

Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.79, Granta Books

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

Destiny, Blame, Poor

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Soul, Poor, This Society

Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

Jesse Eisenberg

Smell, People, Poor

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