Forget Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forget Honest Money Never forget Poor Poverty Rich Sometimes
“The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money. Then when they have money they don’t know what to do with it. They forget all the old virtues, which weren’t real virtues anyway. They think the only virtue is to make more money and to spend. They… — John Fowles Copy Share
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am. — Larry King Copy Share Image
“Whenever i have Wealthy wealth trust me i will change the history of poverty” — Saad khan Copy Share Image
Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives -- in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
