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Poor Quotes (page 18)

William Shakespeare quote: "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. William Shakespeare
Nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is concerned, while you're in office, you'll still be the worst single president they've ever had until you stop. Then it's some other poor bastard's turn. And even that doesn't matter, because ten, twenty years later, they'll look back on you, and wonder why they didn't appreciate you when they had you...You don't get to make a difference. You don't get to do jack shit. You know... Neil Gaiman
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also..."
You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also seen the handthat, ever so gently? kills. Friedrich Nietzsche
Yet is Dixon certain, as certain as the lightness he feels now, lightness premonitory of Flying, that far worse happen’d here, to these poor People, as the blood flew and the Children cried, - that at the end no one understood what they said as they died. Thomas Pynchon
Jerzy Kosinski quote: "I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor..."
I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in. Jerzy Kosinski
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. Ambrose Bierce
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Rich girls don't marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby"
Rich girls don't marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
E. M. Forster quote: "To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can..."
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. E. M. Forster
Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone. Louis L'Amour
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us. William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Poor Richard"
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Poor Richard Benjamin Franklin
Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way. William Butler Yeats
Dear me! how long is art! And short is our life! I often know amid the scholar's strife. A sinking feeling in my mind and heart. How difficult the means are to be found. By which the primal sources may be breached; And long before the halfway point is reached, They bury a poor devil in the ground. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only think of Mrs. Holder's being dead! Poor woman, she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one cease to abuse her. Jane Austen
George Santayana quote: "Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is..."
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana

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