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The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork. — Wilson Mizner

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness. — Martin J. Whitman

You will not be poor for giving away love. But you will be a poor soul if you don't give away love. — Debasish Mridha

The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed. — Maxim Gorky

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oppression makes a poor country. — William Penn

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one — Emma Goldman

Stefan spat. Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance. — Tamora Pierce

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does. — Greg Gutfeld

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

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. — Rose Wilder Lane

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I've always been able to vomit as silently as a ninja; it's a questionable talent and a poor party trick. — Jason Purdy

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children. — Nicholas Kristof

You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have. — Debasish Mridha

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth. — Cullen Hightower

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't. — Hillary Clinton

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform
and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Money is a poor man's credit card. — Marshall McLuhan

a social deformity perhaps more hideous than the evil rich man: the evil poor. — Suzanne Uber

To appear rich, we become poor. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. — Orison Swett Marden

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But — Cherie Priest

What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. — Murray Rothbard

Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person. Admonished the Savior, 'Judge not according to the appearance. — Thomas S. Monson

My folks were English ... we were too poor to be British. — Bob Hope

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it. — Donna Brazile

Poor people all think they deserve to be rich," he continued. "Rich people live every day with the uneasy knowledge that we do not. — Graham Moore

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires. — Hosur Narasimhaiah

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors. — William Shakespeare

Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said. She shone only from reflected light. — Jeannette Walls

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers. — Mahatma Gandhi

There's only one thing worse than being sick...
and that's being sick and poor. — Lou Silluzio

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. — Edmund Spenser

Do not worry! The Almighty God knows all your need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making. — Joshua Ferris

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

the brave are merely the stupid who live through their poor decisions. — Brian Fuller

He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars. — Woodrow M. Kroll

We had a son, whom we named Bertran. Just the one, though I prayed for more. Loving him made me rich in ways I'd too long been poor. — Julie Berry

I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything. — George Bernard Shaw

I'd made some poor decisions last summer, but I was just thankful I'd ended up on the right path, the path that had brought me right here, with him. — Adriane Leigh

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. — Harry Reid

No matter what type of cards life deals you ... always try to smile and be happy! — Timothy Pina

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. — Aesop

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline. — George Lindsey

The poor fellow had never been cut out to be a villain. — T.H. White

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether. — T. Harv Eker

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people. — Rickie Lee Jones

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. — Frank Field

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest. — Napoleon Bonaparte

In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The very flowers are sacred to the poor. — William Wordsworth

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor. — Al Koran

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that. — Joe Biden

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! — Marquis De Sade

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial. — Ron Paul

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. — Frederic Chopin

The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means
Poor Justin! — Sarah Strohmeyer

Poor parents tend to follow[ ... ] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth". — Malcolm Gladwell

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family. — Wolfgang Puck

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. — Charles Dickens

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most. — James Cook

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! — Hosea Ballou

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. — Winston Churchill

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor. — Felix Wantang

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. — Thomas C. Oden

All things pass, but the poor remain. We are the people of the Apokalis. Tomorrow there will be more of us. — Indra Sinha

You're just too poor to get rich. — Bill James

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind. — Ajahn Chah

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown. — Robin Leach

Even a poor man can receive honors. — Sophocles

If others try to blame you for their own negative energy, let it go and forget about it! It's their problem ... not yours! — Timothy Pina

I've been been rich
I've been poor
Rich is better
I've been young
I've been old
Young is better — Cher

Life's a daily work in progress. Always move forward reaching new goals. Hit a road block? Keep calm & stay strong. — Timothy Pina

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It's a poor thing to be sane! — Donald Woods Winnicott

I've gutted that poor rover so much, it looks like I parked it in a bad part of town. — Andy Weir

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. — Gertrude Stein

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners. — Frans De Waal

The Seven Ps': Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance. — Phil Campion

Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor. — Albert Camus

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. — Thomas Malthus

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power. — John Berger

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card. — Mark Twain

Charity is a nice gesture, but it only offers temporary relief. But if he can change the law, the benefits for the poor will last longer. — Aya Ling

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough — William Shakespeare

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money. — Blake Griffin

God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day. — William Blake

For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted" (Ps. 109:16, — Henry Cloud

The poor bloke must have been besotted. Now me, I'm just in love. — Sally Wentworth

Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful. — Jo Nesbo

She's not pretty. Little, funny Fernie. She's not pretty. Poor Fernie. — Amy Harmon