Poor Quotes

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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses. — Unknown Author
It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly. — Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. — Euripides
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. — Horace
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. — Alfred Hitchcock
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to… — Anatole France
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. — Henry IV
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. — Denis Waitley
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not… — Walter Benjamin
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. — Thomas Gray
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much. — Thomas Fuller
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. — Thomas Fuller
Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe… — Gerald F. Lieberman
It is a sin to be poor. — Charles Fillmore
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and… — William Shakespeare
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth… — Sydney Madwed
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man. — Gregory Nunn
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our… — Samuel Pepys
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling… — Samuel Pepys

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