Names Quote by Italo Calvino

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers…

— Alexandre Dumas

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my…

— Avi

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

— Mason Cooley

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

— Thomas Fuller

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at…

— Plato

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…

— Samuel Johnson

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American…

— Hugh Evans

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

— Arundhati Roy

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a…

— Fulton J. Sheen