"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted… — James Keller Copy Share Image
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother… — Bono Copy Share Image
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that. — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed.… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Pott's beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a… — Sophie Avett Copy Share Image
There's another totally fraudulent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image