Quotes of: Poor Keyword

Rick: [to Ilsa] I wouldn't bring up Paris if I were you, it's poor salesmanship.

Casablanca

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Jackie Chan

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

J. Irwin Miller

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Santiago Durango

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Albert Camus

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

William Adams

Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Sri Chinmoy

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

Martine McCutcheon

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

Olly Murs

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

Andrew Jackson

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Andrew Johnson

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Abraham Kuyper

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

Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.

Anonymous

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith