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Poor Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
- The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants…
- America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
- I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
- Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care?…
- You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so…
- Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the…
- there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation…
- Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell,…
- America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact…
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