May Quote by Lucian Download Open image “Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.” — Lucian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Men Poverty Suffering
Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. — Hebrew Proverb Copy Share Image
Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance. — Ore Abayomi Copy Share Image
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue. — Horace Copy Share Image
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things. — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose… — Lucian Copy Share Image
The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction… — Lucian Copy Share Image
How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given — Lucian Copy Share Image
The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay? — Lucian Copy Share Image
The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service. — Lucian Copy Share Image
The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world. — Lucian Copy Share Image
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. — Lucian Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
