Poor Quotes - Page 30

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Little rogues easily become great ones.

They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

He that would travel much, should eat little.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land gets cultivated, "it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is in individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent..to every person, rich or poor...because it is in lieu of the natural inheritance, which, as a right, belongs to every man, over and above the property he may have created, or inherited from those who did

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.