T Quotes
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“The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.”
“The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.”
“The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.”
“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.”
“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
“The poor eats with his eyes, the rich with his mouth.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.”
“The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.”
Source: The Letters of Queen Victoria
“The poor Ferns, like the wolves in olden time, have a price set upon their heads, and they in like manner will soon disappear. We must have "Fern Laws", and preserve them like game.”
Source: Hardy Ferns: How I Collected and Cultivated Them
“The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.”
“The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.”
“The poor foreigner,' he said, 'has been acquainted with our grasslands but for four short days.'
'We must pity him,' said the old man with feeling.
'How hard it must be,' commented the woman, 'not to be born a Mongolian.'
'To be sure,' said the old man, 'the fellow is most unfortunate. But how blessed he is to have found his way to us!”
“THE POOR FORGIVE YOUR WEALTHINESS. YOU OWE THEM KINDNESS.
The poor have forgiven you for the advantage you took on account of wealthiness. You do owe them some kindness.
They do look in you for signs of goodness.”
“The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.”
“The poor get poorer, the rich get richer, the gap widens and fear and hatred fester and grow.”
“The poor get worked, the rich get richer,
The world gets worse, do you get the picture?
The poor gets dead, the rich get depressed,
The ugly get mad, the pretty get stressed.
The ugly get violent, the pretty get gone,
The old get stiff, the young get stepped on.
Whoever told you that "it was all good" lied,
So throw your fists up if you not satisfied.”
“The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.”
“The poor girl liked to be thought clever, but she hated to be thought bookish; she used to read in secret and, though her memory was excellent, to abstain from showy reference. She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to printed page; she had an immense curiosity about life and was constantly staring and wondering. She carried herself with a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and agitations of the world.”
“The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her.”
Source: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.”
“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
“The poor had a right to fuck their way through their bad dreams. Sex and drink, and maybe love, was all they had.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“The poor have always had to live for the present, but now a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class as well.”
Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
“The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.”
Source: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change
“The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.”
“The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.”
“The poor have no right to love. Especially if their beloved is from a rich tribe.”
Source: The Red Island: The Gatekeeper
“The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.”
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.”
“The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).”
“The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.”
Source: The Mangle Street Murders
“The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.”
“The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“The “poor in spirit” are those who place themselves on God’s grace, those who recognize their own helplessness and their desperate need for God’s grace, whose heart says ‘Lord, I am greatly in need of you’.”
“The poor Indians that sold the isle of Manhattan for twenty-four bucks are the only real native New Yorkers.”
Source: In Limbo
“The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence
“The Poor is no longer not just having enough, but poverty is in fact, not having more than the debts you owe!!! - - The Credit Repair Book: The Credit Repair Company's Secret Weapon.”
Source: The Credit Repair Book: The Credit Repair Company's "Secret Weapon"
“The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ”
“The poor is the central focus of my economic agenda. The poor should be strengthened in such a way that they get the willingness to defeat poverty. By helping the poor make ends meet while they remain in poverty is also one of the ways. I am not saying right or wrong but it's one of the ways.”
“The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.”
“The poor lack much, the greedy everything.”
“The poor lads called and called, but they were grown and had forgotten the best places to hide.”
Source: Wicked and the Just
“The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.”
Source: Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)
“The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.”
“The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.”
“The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks”