Quote by Joseph O'Neill Download Open image ““he now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.”” — Joseph O'Neill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you… — Ann Packer Copy Share Image
“Thanks to a three-million-dollar inheritance from the grandparents who raised him, he was financially set for life.” — John A. Heldt Copy Share Image
“I wish I had money now. If only I’d saved my allowance growing up, instead of squandering it on balls, balloons, booze, and floozies.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Having lived among the owning classes, he knew the utter futility of expecting any solution of the wage-squabble. There was no solution, short of… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I used to wonder why... Mum kept having babies... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing--at least at… — Margaret Powell Copy Share Image
“Asked why he lived so humbly, he once said: “I like to be reminded of where I came from, and putting myself in modest… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“If a person lives frugally and acts in a cheap manner, isn't the person living a redundant life?” — S.harder Copy Share Image
“ I was a child of wealth, expected to do nothing but everything.” — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“Oh my son, so poor in doing the right things, so rich in doing the wrong things! What great poverty it is to be… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the cost of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him. Then I turn to look for what it is we're… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Like an old door, ever man past a certain age comes with historical warps and creaks of one kind or another, and a woman… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“She merely wiped the floor with paper towels and said nothing, brushing her free hand against my shoulder blade—my shoulder blade!—as she carried the… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I am vertiginously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy, everything would… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or confident, as… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“...bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.” — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
