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There were precious few people you could trust, so if you wanted to survive, you'd better always look out for Number One. — Lara Adrian

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way. — Will Carleton

I'm cooking 42 years, and I didn't know bananas are good for my brain. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own. — William Maxwell

We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good. — Sterling Marlin

Normie. How about going to rehab to get over the trauma from getting rejected by a rehab? — Linda West

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids. — Chely Wright

Follow, follow the sun, and which way the wind blows, when this day is done. Breathe, breathe in the air. Set your intentions. Dream with care. — Xavier Rudd

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. — Robert Herrick

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. — Criss Angel

I have had it all tested for poison," he assured Harry. "Had a house-elf taste every bottle after what happened to your poor friend Rupert. — J.K. Rowling

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements. — Chic Murray

Ava wasn't the poor unsuspecting woman who'd let the wild thing into the house, she was the wild thing's mate, creeping indoors at his side ... — Lauren Gilley

I called the Ops Room, hoping to get Luc, and possibly Ethan, on the phone. "Jimmy's House of Vampires," Luc answered, in a really poor Bronx accent. — Chloe Neill

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing. — Christopher Walken

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea. — Miguel De Cervantes

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. — Eileen Myles

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera. — Bruce Campbell

Boo was asking him who the hell he thought he was and also could he spare a few kitty treats for a poor, abused house cat? — Kristen Ashley

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls — Hermann Hesse

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles — Du Fu

Yo momma so poor that when I visited her house and tore down the cob webs, she screamed "Who's tearing down the drapes? — Various

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy. — Glenn Greenwald

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor. — Hugo Chavez

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. — Homer

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car. — Will Rogers

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short. — Amber Benson

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. — Henry David Thoreau

He was a Labour MP so I asked him if it was true the House of Commons was a form of poor relief for the otherwise unemployable... — Robert Robinson

Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. — William Shakespeare

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews. — Alan King

I have done nothing wrong. — Martha Stewart

I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season — Haruki Murakami

It is a fact that you project what you are. — Norman Vincent Peale

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady. — Hillary Clinton

Leaving the house in general really doesn't mix with toddlers, but long lines just indicate poor parental planning and judgment. — Jim Gaffigan

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one. — Bob Dylan

Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life. — Steve Jobs

I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great. — Elijah Wood

Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house. — Charles Wheelan