Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“I tell you, troubles are poor things to hug. They've got to many pickers.” — Eleanor H. Porter Copy Share Image
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“All night i have been making songs for you in my head. A lay for your eyes, a ballad for your lips,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father taught me to play the sitar when I was seven years old. He and his elder disciples oversaw my teaching… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
“I reach up and pat them both on the head. "Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“You mean all the dead women looked like Mr. Hauptman’s ex-wife? That’s . . . that’s right out of a profiler’s book.” Jenny snorted her… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Milly went to work on her piecrust. After she'd rolled out the bottom layer and then the top one, she moved on… — Rebecca Rasmussen Copy Share Image
“Do go, my dear friend — I don’t mean to ask her to marry, but to ask her to dance. — Never… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Poor things were laden down and they were only youngsters. When I went to school at their age we had a couple… — Al K. Line Copy Share Image
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“We walked into the forests which encircled the town. I have never liked them, their dark throat, their sullen height, their slump-shouldered… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
“The lord of distant archery, Apollo, answered: "Lord of earthquake, sound of mind you could not call me if I strove with… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Old Men’s Souls Within their ancient, decrepit bodies the souls of old men wallow. Poor things, so full of sorrow: how bored… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
“All the way back she talked haltingly about herself, and Amory's love waned slowly with the moon. At her door they started… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A true misogynist is a straight man who — because he is a potential pushover for women and realizes it — resents… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A fresh dream-fresh happiness! A fresh rush of delicate, voluptuous poison! What is real life to him ! To his corrupted eyes… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Poor things, she thought - do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy War, and the orators who talk so much about… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society.… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“Jesus,” Kiernan said as he stepped from the Bronco and a gust of frigid wind lifted his hair. “I think my testicles… — Diana Copland Copy Share Image
“Second: them poor things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's flopping, never no more!"… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was… — Anna Nicole Smith Copy Share Image
In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“The bonds of family can be wonderful but there is a time to know when to stand apart." She held out a… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
“Do you not wish that the poor little children who live in dirty courts and play in the gutters had some of… — Edwin Henry Landseer Copy Share Image
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
