poor

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

And plenty makes us poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king truth comes riding on a donkey symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership it underscores the need for leadership.