Poor Quotes - Page 21

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

Past glories are poor feeding.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it by subsidized government competition, oppressive taxation, or outright expropriation.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

There's a reason Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix are our four fastest-growing areas. They offer an astonishingly high standard of living for ordinary Americans. New York City is a great place to be really rich and not a terrible place to be really poor, but it's a pretty hard place to live on $60,000 a year. You don't experience anywhere near the basic standard of living you would in Houston on the same income.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.