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Poor Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
- Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
- Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no…
- The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
- One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role…
- A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
More Poor Quotes
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality,… — Amy Adams
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac
- I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be… — Bob Barker