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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating


Jean Anouilh

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
KIN HUBBARD As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win s...
CESAR CHAVEZ Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves fr...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves fr...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a...
MELVYN FANCY Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would b...
JULIAN BARNES It's no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be
KIN HUBBARD There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor...
DOUGLAS CASEY No thanks,’ said Harry. ‘The poor toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your head down it...
J.K. ROWLING It is double tragedy to be physically poor & also poor in information gathering.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
L.M. MONTGOMERY To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and ...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
GEORGE MOORE It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.
JOE E. LEWIS It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor / as long as you've got money.
JOE E. LEWIS It is double tragedy to be poor & also have kids that are poor in character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as b...
VANDANA SHIVA In really poor countries, this would not be a good sign as it can point to a deterioration of other ...
CAROLA GRUEN Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of lif...
DANIEL WOODRELL I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one...
J. C. WATTS People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they...
JOHN GOODMAN What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be
DOUGLAS JERROLD What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be
DOUGLAS JERROLD Inevitable. It would be poor planning not to finish the roadway.
JOSEPH NARKIEWICZ Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co...
JEAN ANOUILH We also would encourage that resources be allocated to compensate those poor farmers -- and most of ...
JACQUES DIOUF What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would....
GEORGE MACDONALD There's nothing wrong with being poor as long as you vote for the right man.
HOWARD PLATT Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.
GEORGE MACDONALD Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There has been poor performance so far this year in the North Sea. The United States certainly is no...
KEVIN NORRISH No one has anything to cash out. I think this year people are going to be feeling pretty poor.
MARI ADAM What Charlie did was facilitate and pay people who were going to help people exercise their franchis...
BRUCE COOK The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS It is a sin to be poor.
CHARLES FILLMORE I still think it's probably recognized as one of the most socially progressive courts in the country...
FRANK ASKIN As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we ne...
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Long after the poor departed have gone from our hearts, their insignificant dust continues to be min...
MARCEL PROUST If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stup...
DAVID HILBERT But what you minded most at our final parting was that in my poor rags -but was it not the costume o...
JAROSLAV SEIFERT A real poor person is the one who can’t promise anything.
VIKRANT PARSAI Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships...
W. E. B. DU BOIS The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or h...
BENJAMIN HARRISON Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would b...
HENRY HOME It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as i...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT There is nothing so exhilarating as to be shot at and missed.
WINSTON CHURCHILL You can be anything you want to be, as long as you believe in yourself.
MICHELLE WORTHINGTON It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
BILL VAUGHN It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
BILL VAUGHAN Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail...
DAVID POTTS This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes...
HERBERT N. CASSON If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes...
ROBERT N. C. NIX What
happened was, it was poor timing,
LANNY POFFO To the poor some businesses are menial,but to the rich all businesses are rich,so long as it serves ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply negl...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.
AMOR TOWLES The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as thei...
ESTHER DUFLO As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e...
E. M. FORSTER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN A poor mind in a rich country makes one a poor person & a poor mind in a poor country makes one a po...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
DAVID MITCHELL It is better to be poor than to live alone.
VIKRANT PARSAI I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to e...
MICHELANGELO Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.
AMIT KALANTRI One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT One must be poor to know the luxury of living.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS One must be poor to know the luxury of giving
GEORGE ELIOT There are so many poor people in China, and they don't need a super-powerful system. As long as they...
JEFFREY MAXICK As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen.
JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET" The reconstruction, massive as it is, is really the easy part. Rebuilding confidence, especially amo...
BRUCE REED A poor person is one who doesn’t buy anything until he sees someone else buying it first.
VIKRANT PARSAI It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
BOB HARRINGTON Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously....
GODFREY REGGIO If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s c...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we we...
THABO MBEKI What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious...
RICHARD ENGEL Think how poor Mother Eve was brought to being as God's afterthought
ANNA WICKHAM It's a long training camp. It's just one day. You can't go off one day. It's what you do in practice...
CRAIG ANDERSON If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that...
STEPHEN COLBERT No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it some...
GEORGE MACDONALD One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That&#...
JAY-Z I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
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JEAN PAUL The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
JEAN BRYANT Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...
JEAN COCTEAU There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL