Poor Quotes - page 3

Money is a poor indicator of success. (Richard Branson)
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
People who speak Belarusian can not do anything except talk on it, because it is impossible to express anything great in Belarusian. The Belarusian language is a poor language. There are only two great languages in the world. Russian and English. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. View quote
Mother Teresa
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. View quote
Jane Austen
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. View quote
Albert Pike
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. View quote
Bruce Schneier
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. (Lewis Carroll)
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. View quote
Anatole France
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . View quote
Anne Brontë
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. View quote
Jack London
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. View quote
Ben Affleck
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. View quote
Dan Quayle
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. View quote
Lord Byron
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. View quote
Charles Dickens
They got money for wars but they can't feed the poor. (Tupac Shakur)
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. View quote
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? View quote
William Shakespeare
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt