Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.
I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
