“A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!” WantSometimesWealthPovertyDoorsArmsFineHorrorDistanceLengthSublimeMisersPersonification Author:Charles Lamb
“We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.” MenPovertyRichFineOughtPhilosopherExtravagance Book:Success and Its Conditions Source: Success and Its Conditions
“My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.” PovertyFineCookingHillsCooksGrandmotherLoadGrandfatherGrandparentMy GrandmotherMy GrandfatherScottishBeefButchersMegFerguson Author:Kenneth Cranham
“I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.” SaidHandsPartyPovertyFineEstatesHonorableIndicationInefficiency Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs