Penniless Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We…
— Mary Pipher
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the…
— H.G. Wells
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there…
— Muriel Barbery
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Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is…
— Amy Vanderbilt
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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the…
— Henry Ford
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We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment…
— Theodor Herzl
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I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
— Art Garfunkel
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We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by…
— Theodor Herzl
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It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow.
— Freddie Mercury
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture,…
— Elihu Burritt
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In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town…
— Susan Hayward
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You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me…
— Ted Cruz
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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to…
— H.G. Wells
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No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for…
— Victoria Woodhull
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When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
— Ryan Tedder
Who Wrote These Penniless Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Penniless Quotes as follows: