Deserve Quote by Robert Southey Download Open image “Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.” — Robert Southey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deserve Failing Folks Idleness Misery Money Poor Poverty Procrastination Reason Reason why Rich
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then,… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man… — Warren Buffett 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
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing;… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times! — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. — Robert Southey 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
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire. — Chi Chi Rodriguez Copy Share Image
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He… — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here. — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Every girl deserves a guy who'll prove to her that not all guys are the same, a guy who'll love her just the way… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
Singaporeans like Mr. Alfian Sa'at do not deserve to be admonished in Parliament on the basis of a selective reading of their works. — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image