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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

John F. Kennedy

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish proverb

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

A poor person is often worthy.

Irish Proverb

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Oprah Winfrey

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Madonna

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace Mann

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Ann Landers

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, what's begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

English Proverb

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Benjamin Franklin

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin

The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.

Dutch Proverb

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Aesop

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

G. K. Chesterton

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Jean Anouilh

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do.

Fulton J. Sheen

A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.

German Proverb

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Tupac Shakur

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

Ho Chi Minh

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Andrew Jackson

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Andrew Jackson

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Emma Goldman

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

When I was in high school, I dreamed of being a film-maker, but my family was so poor that they couldn't afford for me to go to college.

John Wooden

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

Sir Philip Sidney

The interchange at U.S. 1 and (Interstate) 95 is in very poor shape. Something has to be done about it.

Glenn Storch

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

Sir Philip Sidney

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Agnes De Mille

They argue that these loans are a tool for the poor to help them with short-term needs. The only tool they offer is a shovel that digs them deeper into debt.

Victor Elias

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

What Charlie did was facilitate and pay people who were going to help people exercise their franchise. What could be accomplished by sending Charlie to prison? The vote of poor people in this country will be suppressed as it always has.

Bruce Cook

The deal that very publicly didn't happen was very detrimental to the company. It probably contributed to the poor performance that might have ultimately cost Roger Curry his job.

Paul Schlesinger

This is supposed to be a rich village, but the whole area is poor.

Uche Onyemetu

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

Saint John Chrysostom

This is going to displace the poorest of the poor without any international development plan for what to do with these people.

Jeff Vogt

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Princess Diana

Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people.

Bob Young

We expected them to play us tough. Poor Bryce came up to me and was concerned about what people were saying about our pitching, and she just went out there and showed them.

Chuck Poetter

It's very clear that we have to do something about the way world trade rules are implemented...if we are going to give poor people a chance.

Harriet Lamb

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Louis Ferdinand Celine

Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Diana Vreeland

He's one of those kids who influences others not to make poor choices.

Tony Davis

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Edgar Bergen

It's going to take more poor weather in South America, or some other news event before they would become long.

Jason Ward

This is not good news for the poor in Massachusetts. The money is not just waiting out there to be scooped up by Massachusetts. Residents will have to lose that money first.

Laura Everett

Obviously to come to the attention of Channel 4 she must have been a flagrant abuser. That's not to say she's been a poor judge, but obviously she has developed some work habits that are questionable to say the least.

Bill Ballenger

Hope is the poor man's bread.

George Herbert

For the record, this is a poor decision.

Gerry Byrne

There are going to be areas of the state where the economics may be poor, and those are the areas where we need government intervention. The opportunity is there for the government to partner with private industry in those areas where market economics are considered questionable for natural development.

Peter Reilly

We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serves are poor people who don't get cable or can't afford it.

Dennis Wharton

We had a couple of kids make some poor decisions.

Donald Walker

To do something unparalleled in the world, and especially at the beginning of the 21st Century, and that is to tilt the world a little bit on its axis in favor of the poor, and that's not a difficult thing to do.

Bob Geldof

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Leigh Matthews

He is poor who doesn't have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough.

Jean Guehenno

This poor financial performance heightens concerns about the company's ability to effect a timely turnaround in its critical North American operations.

Scott Sprinzen

I know for sure that Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is a very sick person. He must resign because of his poor health.

Alexander Lebed

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Bill Vaughn

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

What's happening today is a result of a long-term history of poor design or mismanagement.

Melody Heidel

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

Robert Kiyosaki

I can't describe how poor. It was dry and there was dust everywhere, and garbage.

Anita Fremark

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

When Japan was poor, families did more things together out of necessity. But now it?s increasingly all about the individual. This leaves people more isolated and likely to contemplate suicide.

Mafumi Usui

That's why that first out is so important in the seventh inning. Once again, Cody pitched a great game (he was a 2-1 loser to Bolles a week ago), then we go and make it interesting. Poor guy.

Matt Mccool

Why don't presidents fight the war?/ Why do they always send the poor? ... B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs).

Daron Malakian

What we've seen is the loss of democracy as we know it, ... It's poor public policy that somebody loses their seat based upon a fraud.

David Olsen

I was pleased with our effort for three of the four games, but we weren't happy with the third-place finish. We had one really poor game against Santa Margarita, but on that night they played very well and we did not.

Marcelo Enriquez

When Japan was poor, families did more things together out of necessity, like sharing a bath or eating together, and the community was much more important, especially in rural communities.

Mafumi Usui

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

George Wald

There are very few people advocating for the poor in this state or in the country. Poor people have no voice.

Patricia Wright

A poor excuse of a priest, I'll tell you that.

Brian Schiavo

The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn't care about.

Bryan Fair

When the sea turned into honey, the poor man lost his spoon.

Bulgarian Proverb

Our fear is that the savings will be on the back of poor people rather than highly profitable pharmaceutical companies and highly profitable abusive providers.

Kathleen Stoll

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls-poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.

Carroll O'connor

Although this is a preliminary report, we're pretty accurate. The numbers are extremely poor.

Van Nguyen

Our serving was good — we didn't miss one all night. But our serve reception was poor all through the first game and in the latter part of game two.

Ruth Staples

The historic earnings generated by ECI have been poor and the heavy administrative burden of running a small estate such as this one has hindered performance.

James Dawson

Poor performance hasn't tarnished the funds' image, ... It's still the right acquisition for the right buyer.

Alexander Paris

Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones who were too poor to get out, and now theyre dying.

Brian Williamson

Although booking patterns remained strong through early August despite poor operating performance, booking levels have since fallen on the adverse publicity surrounding the cancellations that occurred in early August.

Jim Goodwin

I was encouraged by our hitting and pitching today. We had a couple of poor defensive mistakes, but we put the ball in play and pitched well. We just had a couple of defensive lapses, which may not have been the reason we lost, but certainly contributed.

Bob Sperrazza

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Dennis Prager

Forget that you are poor, remember you are white.

Sterling Johnson

These are the working poor.

Patricia Houston

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

William S. Gilbert

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated.

Mukhtar Mai

Hawaii is one of the very worst states in the treatment of working poor.

Jason Levitis

He said poor people eat crummy food, they live in crummy houses and drive crummy cars, so why shouldn't they have crummy lawyers? The guy is a knucklehead. But at least he was willing to say out loud what many people think.

Tom Workman

Peace is still not assured, and we must remember there are still millions of extremely poor and hungry people who need help.

Vincent Charles

We had a 15-point lead in the second quarter and probably could have put them away. But we made some poor decisions tonight.

Tim Reuter

The quality of print (has been) generally very poor. It's hard on the eyes, hard on the nerves.

Steve Riggio

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

William Temple, Sr.

It?s a case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

Shelly Lombard

I've been rich and I've been poor; Believe me, honey, rich is better.

Sophie Tucker

All the houses are flooded in my neighborhood because of poor planning.

Rachel Martin

It was poor execution by us in the ball game. When we did find open looks, we just didn't finish them.

Dave Milausnic

The roof was leaking and half of the lights were turned off. Because the business was poor, the owner didn't want to spend more money on it.

Jiang Baoguo

I thought at the beginning of the second half our shot selection was poor and they picked up the intensity. We didn't get back on defense as well as we had to.

Tom Tennett

There are poor and hungry people right around us. When you see the level and depth of suffering that's going on, then you have no other reaction than to help.

Stacy Sullivan

We want the groups who are doing a poor job of reporting potential beach hazards to be made accountable.

Chris Evans

People love to beat up on the poor umpire. It's like its own sport.

Art Hernandez

We were complaining about how hot it was during two-a-days, and he said it was a lot worse in India. He saw all these poor people [suffering] in the heat, but they weren't complaining.

Dallas Baker

I think it's going to be the biggest crowd we've ever had. This is great for Lenoir County football, because football here has been poor. Lenoir County is going to see what big-time football is all about (tonight).

Wayne Jackson

He?s been a quality kid and obviously he gets the chance to come home, which I think helped him a little bit and was probably fun for him. We had him in a spot where we were down 2-1 and we hit a fly ball that was a poor approach on our part, instead of hitting the ball up the middle or the other way like we preach.

Charlie Hickey

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

Johnny Rotten

I'm just happy to see the champion getting a slice of action again in a division that is in a poor state as far as emerging talent goes.

Branco Milenkovic

Michael died just after his one-year anniversary (in prison). He was in poor health and was actually transferred outside the hospital (to another facility) the day that he died.

Linda Foglia

I say what I'm about to say with all due respect. We are not going to be anybody's second fiddle. We're not going to be anybody's poor little brother. . . . I hope tomorrow we can hire the next one that everyone wants in five years.

Rick Hartzell

. . . it's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

Alice Childress

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Sophie Tucker

They started out with the best intentions, but they didn't want to be known as a poor town.

Lisa Roberts

So we have European agricultural policy financing an exporter that makes a product only for export, a poor quality product that destroys (emerging economies in destination markets).

Jose Bove

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

George Crabbe

Usually the art districts are formed because they're low-rent districts to begin with, and bohemian, and living in poor conditions, ... At 43 and 52, we're not interested in being scrappy.

Rick Hoffman

It hasn't even hit me yet totally. There are a lot of memories here. My whole life. My poor mother, everybody. I can't believe it.

Jessica Reynolds

The lack of water or its poor quality kills 10 times more people than all the wars combined.

Loic Fauchon

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot

I'm disappointed with their try because we should have closed out the game. But after a poor first half in the heavy rain we showed real character with the forwards getting a grip and good tactical kicking.

Brett Taylor

To file a suit in the court is very expensive. Poor people cannot pay. We can give them free legal aid and help the poor people.

Father Thomas

It is putting up some serious barriers to the poor.

Richard Doran

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Imelda Marcos

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

Clare Short

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

Robert A. Heinlein

The investor gets the financial return and the 200 poor communities where our shareholders operate will get the social gain.

Gordon Young

We expect the forthcoming interim results to be poor in comparison to 2004, although it has to be said the vast majority of profits are made in the second half in the run-in to Christmas.

David O'brien

They were very good and we were very poor.

Joe Royle

What we don't need in a school or a classroom is for a teacher to say, 'These poor black children. They really have it tough,' and not set the bar high enough for them.

Barry Williams

I thought I came from a poor neighborhood until I got to Korea. There I saw people living in just little shacks with newspaper on the wall to keep the cold out. And coal burners were all they had for heat.

Stan Hossler

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

William Proxmire

You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed.

Walter Mosley

We believe our son intended to help this poor woman, got her a hotel room for a night's rest and never anticipated the violence she was capable of.

Carmen Proviano

It was a a very poor effort for us. They came out and treated it like it was the Civil War. We treated it like it was just another game.

Chamberlain Oguchi

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Mike Todd

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Pat O'connor

We didn't expect to lose against Malaysia, but our men's singles play was plagued by a poor level of fitness, thus they lost easily.

Lius Pongoh

I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.

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I had a lot of poor iron shots. A lot of 30- to 35-footers [putts]. I played the par 5s even par, which for out here is not good, especially since I hit good drives, actually, on every one of them.

Craig Stadler

We expect the forthcoming interim results to be poor in comparison to 2004.

David O'brien

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

David Friedman

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

W. C. Fields

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Henry Walter Bates

Leaving a 10 percent tip is a huge insult. To me it shows more taste on your part to leave something acknowledging their effort, but telling them their service was poor.

Judith Bowman

Your lack of effectiveness, and poor decision making has only led me to conclude that it is now time to move the investment operations at BWC in a new direction with new leadership.

James Mclean

Moreover, it's often the very policies they promote that actually represent the greatest threats to the world's poor.

Paul Driessen

I think it's a poor policy. You pay for something, you should get it. Somebody who does that should be prosecuted.

Dwayne Jones

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

George Eliot

A 30 reading would be considered a Poor Air Quality Day.

Warren Mccormick

The staff made poor investigative decisions, and gave inadequate attention to clear warning signs.

John Mattingly

Mentally we're not where we need to be. Our focus was really poor. When you play good teams, your approach has to be better than ours was today.

Marc Suyematsu

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once-when I was poor.

Larry Holmes

You don't have poor schools for long if the community demands otherwise.

Dr. Henry Johnson

Sex - the poor man's polo.

Clifford Odets

The consequences of declines in physical activity over time are now evident by the large proportion of society with poor fitness levels.

Mercedes R. Carnethon

It was a poor match and a lot of the anglers who took part found it difficult to catch.

Alan Wright

You see the shells coming in from opposition forces as well as the Taliban. The poor can only retreat, and not take care of the crops.

Ahmad Shah Massood

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

Because we are a poor county, we can get funding for this. There's money out there.

Frank Dean

Those most vulnerable to climate change are not the ones responsible for causing it. Our energy-consumptive lifestyles are having lethal impacts on other people around the world, especially the poor.

Jonathan Patz

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Theodore Parker

It's just a poor layout.

Mick Monken

The middle class is becoming the working poor. If they have one tragic event -- illness, lost job or a death -- they have need for the food bank.

Debra Alich

We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our part.

Brian Aldridge

We're a relatively poor county when you take away the Illinois people and the summer people. The regular, normal people around here don't have that much money.

Pat Quillen

We didn't deserve to win. We came in with a poor attitude. We didn't play hard. We hung our heads when things went bad. That's not what championship teams do.

Lindsay Bemis

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

Amy Lowell

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?

Cris Collinsworth

I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation.

Ali Allawi

There are more constructive ways to carry on a conversation about the future of the country and the nation's poor than using this sacred occasion.

Robert Franklin

When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.

Jeff Beeman

I've never had this kind of expectation before, but I'm not going to blame anything on that. It's not being able to control myself that's led to the poor season so far.

Justin Baum

The supervisors' whole idea is to buffer themselves from the public. This poor guy is up there, really, to make this just one more ho-hum decision for the county.

Kevin Carl

This happened because of the poor workmanship when they built our houses - the rainwater pours in through the walls.

Peter Abrahams

For the under-insured and the working poor, this is their safety net.

Tom Chambers

Three years ago, we raised $900. This year, it was $600. These kids are poor, but so incredibly generous.

Christine Sundberg

In the past our crowds haven't been too great with them but trust me, we're not going to sit back and say, shame, poor things'.

Mark Boucher

For years, the poor, poor people of Los Angeles county were between a rock and a hard place of having to buy insurance, but not being able to afford it.

Douglas Heller

Not like the poor guys who went to Vietnam and Korea.

Robert Belknap

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Chet Atkins

The poor chance of finding jobs at home is the main reason they're leaving.

Klaus Bade

'Not only did we not know there was so much poverty, but also that so many of these poor people were black.'

Cecil Williams

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society.

Michael Harrington

China's leaders realize the economy is growing very fast, which will have a great impact on world economies, but still see China as a very poor country, so are emphasizing domestic difficulties, obstacles and pitfalls.

Wang Jisi