Quotes with poor-quality

Quotes 61 till 80 of 628.

  • Ali ibn Abi Talib A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Georges Bernanos A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Charles Lamb A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • W. C. Fields A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Calvin Trillin A t American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • John Wooden Ability is a poor man's wealth.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Christopher Wren Ability is a poor man's wealtli.
    Christopher Wren
    British scientist and architect (1632 - 1723)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bob Riley According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Abbe Pierre After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • William Shakespeare Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Albert Pike Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • David Mitchell Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
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    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Carl Lewis Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Charlie McCarthy Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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  • Francis Bacon Anger makes dull men witty - but it keeps them poor.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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