It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
~ Lewis Carroll
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.
~ Geoff Mulgan
I come from a poor family.
~ Manny Pacquiao
I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
~ Wolfgang Puck
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
~ Euripides
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
~ Thomas Sowell
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
~ Diana Vreeland
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
~ Sojourner Truth
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
~ John Bunyan
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
~ Evita Peron
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
~ Aristotle
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.
~ Muhammad Yunus
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.
~ John Adams
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.
~ John Hall
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
~ Honoré De Balzac
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.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
~ Robert Motherwell
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~ William Henry Harrison
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
~ W. C. Fields
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.
~ César Chávez
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.
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.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Very few people can afford to be poor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
~ Christine Mcvie
And plenty makes us poor.
~ John Dryden
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
~ Ben Affleck
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
~ Francis Bacon
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
~ Henry Walter Bates
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
~ James E. Faust
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
~ Phaedrus
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
~ Henry Lawson
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
~ Adam Smith
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
~ Desmond Tutu
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
~ Michael Harrington
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
~ Harold H. Greene
The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
~ Ian Smith
