Poor Quotes - Page 14

Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids anything showy and flashy: it never dresses better than it can afford, and yet it is always well dressed, even in simple muslin or plain calico.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.