Disgrace Quote by Sydney Smith Download Open image “Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.” — Sydney Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disgrace Inconvenient Man Poverty Shame Us
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it. — Dolly Parton 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 should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. — Mathieu Kerekou Copy Share Image
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service." — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan,… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living… — Plato Copy Share Image
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