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“I was happy to be a scrub. I was proud to be a scrub. When I got older and I started talking to girls, part of my game when I was talking to them was to tell them how poor I was. I actually enjoyed that.”

Girl Games Poor Talking Proud Enjoyed

Author:Joseph Bruce

“I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.”

Thinking Character Stories Dream Kids Poor Emotion Connections Regard Midwest Bootstraps

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.”

People Thinking Knows Want Needs Shows Jobs Actors Poor Standing And Love Miserable Life And Love Standing There Psychosis Love And Death

Author:Charlize Theron

“Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.”

Poor Class Middle Inequality Middle Class

Author:Robert Reich

“I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".”

Ifs Thinking Wells Hands Poor Class Economic Middle Cards Bother Middle Class

Author:Robert Reich

“I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.”

Years Mother Poor Four Grew Grew Up Raised

Author:Robert Reich

“Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.”

People Ifs Needs Helping Wanted School Poor Class Rich Cutting Middle Taxes Middle Class Wealthy Healthcare Infrastructure Helping People Tax Cuts Robbing

Author:Robert Reich

“Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.”

Men States Poor Party Land Brother Brave Unity Great Men Spoil Poor Man

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.”

Men Poor Enemy He Man

Author:Josh Billings

“The poor are the blacks of Europe.”

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.”

Poor Ignorance Fool Wiser

Book:Faust: A Tragedy

Source: Faust: A Tragedy

“He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.”

Animal Poor Worry Thanks

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.”

Giving Enough Poor Generosity Alms

Book:Thus spake Zarathustra

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra

“Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.”

May Poor Economy Rich Frugality

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.”

Looks Done Order Poor Accepting Teacher Mark Errors Extremes Motive Spite Relief Priests Bless Founders Newman Commemoration

Author:John Henry Newman

“I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.”

Men Kind Wealth Poor Rich Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Plautus

“Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.”

Poor Innocence Substitutes Alas

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.”

Ifs Men Kind Said Joy Wealth Pleasure Poor Pay Too Much Citizens Comfortable Fellows Sake Esteem Doing Good Gave Up Poor Man Benevolent Misers Accumulating Wealth

Book:Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Source: Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

“Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.”

Persons Decision Poor Judgement

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.”

Littles Earth Fall Poor Sun Wind Rain Wander Violet Dew Sun Rise

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Littles Loses Wealth Poor Adversity Riches Substance

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

“Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.”

Men Looks Book Faces Poor Crime Faults

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!”

Heart Soul Suffering Poor Doubt Saws Pieces Cry Creatures Brave Noble No Doubt Vessel Tempest Shipwreck Gonzalo From Tempest

Author:William Shakespeare

“For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

Young Fighting Poor Bird Nests Owl Young Ones Wrens

Author:William Shakespeare

“A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.”

Culture My Own Poor

Author:William Shakespeare

“The well-adjusted make poor prophets.”

Wells Poor Prophet

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.”

Way Should Feelings Hate Lost Poor Hatred Fellows Affair International Superiority Innate Foreigners Indication Wholeheartedly Antipathy International Affairs Lost Confidence

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

Men May Made Stills Poor Rich Our Lives Growing Roots Hills Heavenly Fewer Dew Lilies

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.”

Poor Rich Luxury Extravagance

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Let the poor man mind his tongue”

Men Mind Poor Tongue Poor Man

Author:Ovid

“Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense”

Men Poor Pay Expenses Poor Man Lawsuit

Author:Ovid

“The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.”

Poor Sorrow Busy Leisure Sentimental

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.”

Source: Poetical works

“What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.”

Wish Understanding Poor Understood Trade Painter

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.”

Men Wells Hope Poor Superiors Palaces Poor Man Parasites Huts Flatterer

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”

Men Wells Action Poor Results Figures Produce Painting Masters Embrace Fortuitous

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.”

Sports Poor Candle

Book:The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

“Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.”

Giving Poor Rich Thee Contentment Resignation

Book:Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell

Source: Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell

“Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.”

Home Joy Wealth Poor Bags Worms Barns

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.”

Poor Stores Pale Stewards

Author:Alexander Pope

“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.”

Ifs Trying Seems Winning Poor Huge Easier Humble Small Things

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!”

Light Enjoy Poor Boys Blessing Sight Blind Blindness

Author:Colley Cibber

“New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.”

Dies Walks Poor Rich New York Dollars Beggar Malnutrition Mattresses Cadillacs

Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.”

Jesus Poor Cutting Taxes Lazy Tax Cuts Leper Nazarene

Author:John Fugelsang

“A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.”

Challenges Poor Economy Creative Design Materials Be Creative Functionality

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.”

Poor Comfort Miserable Misfortunes Companionship Comrade

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Heart Enough Earth White Poor Sea Paper Ink

Author:John Lyly

“I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.”

People Made Black Growth Poor Blood Capitalism Paid Fortune Enormous Indian Black People Poor People Frontiers

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.”

Men Literature Wealth Poor Poverty Shame Profit Harm Accompany

Author:Hesiod