Poor Quotes - page 2

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. (Gertrude Stein)
Money is a poor man's credit card. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. View quote
William Cobbett
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. View quote
Anatole France
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. (Winston Churchill)
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. View quote
Andrew Johnson
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. View quote
Oscar Levant
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. View quote
George Eliot
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. View quote
James Shirley
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. View quote
Edmund Burke
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! (Wallace Stevens)
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. View quote
Norman Mailer
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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