Top 25 Poor Quotes of 923 - Page 26

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

Smell, Academia, Poor

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

Bram Stoker

Girl, Lasts, Poor

Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.258, Book Jungle

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Bernard Malamud

Sick, Poverty, Poor

"A Malamud reader".

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

Benjamin Franklin

Other Worlds, Riches, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.256, Yale University Press

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

Benjamin Franklin

Giving, Poor Richard, Liberality

Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Benjamin Franklin

Merit, Modesty, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Courier Corporation

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Benjamin Franklin

Men, Thee, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

Benjamin Franklin

Should, Feels, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.97, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

Reason, Flood, Poor Richard

Poor Richard's Almanack, Oct. 1735

Let thy vices die before thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Vices, Thee, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.60, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard, Reproach

Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.51, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Benjamin Franklin

4th Of July, Easy, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.40, Nayika Publishing

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride, Vans, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.

Benjamin Franklin

Needs, Rich, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Benjamin Franklin

Leadership, Poor Richard, Known

Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.46, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

Barry Boehm

Teamwork, Poor Management, Cost

"Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint-Quality Software Specifications". Book by Tyson Gill (p. 14), 2002.

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

Barney Frank

Decision, Etc, Poor

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Arthur Helps

Pity, Poor, Relation

Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Poverty, Poor

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

Ann Voskamp

Communication, Soul, Poor

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

Alphonso Jackson

Mind, Poor, States

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

Alexander Pope

Soul, Poor, Holes

Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.367

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

Alberto Manguel

Book, Nerd, Poor

"A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.