Poor Quotes
5043 Poor quotes by 2780 unique authors
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If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that…
— Peire Cardenal
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Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.
— Unknown Author
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Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
— Cyril Burt
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The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals…
— Charles Churchill
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
— William James
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There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times, we make…
— Raymond E. Feist
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Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
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Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only…
— Stephen King
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
— Philip Sidney
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Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing…
— Joseph Stiglitz
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an average, sometimes the…
— Des MacHale
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a…
— Aldous Huxley
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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not…
— John Keats
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I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.
— Bum Phillips
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I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the…
— Deacon Jones
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but…
— Sitting Bull
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Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for…
— Barbara Stocking
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...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.
— Craig Ferguson
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