Poor Quotes (page 2)

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• rich
• poor people
• people

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. Jim Rohn

• people
• contentment
• hard

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• lost
• soul
• soulfulness

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul. Edward Abbey

• good
• character
• matter

Poorly written novels -- no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters -- are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. Flannery O'Connor

• thoughts
• crying
• heart

Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds. My Prince! She thought. He chops off heads! How could I marry anyone Who does that sort of thing for fun? The Prince cried, "Who's this dirty slut? Off with her nut! Off with her nut! Roald Dahl

• love
• eyes
• thinking

Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed. W. Somerset Maugham

• little
• feeling
• storm

Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you. From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en. Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. William Shakespeare

• waiting
• bats
• bastards

Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats. Hunter S. Thompson

• life
• fall
• thinking

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me. George Eliot

• manly
• sorry
• look

Poor, chubby Annette Kelper, who desperately tries to pretend that nobody notices the fact that she’s balding on top of her head. That’s right. Look closely — balding just like a man. Perhaps Randy feels sorry for chrome-dome Annette. David Sedaris

• moments
• eyes
• celebration

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self. E. L. Doctorow

• luck
• decision
• film

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films. Wesley Morris

• world
• laborer
• overly

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Henry George

• men
• heard
• reasonably

Poor men's reasons are not heard. Thomas Fuller

• pride
• rich
• hungry

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. Jonathan Swift