"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

Twain, Mark | Fiction | 2 bookmarks

"I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments."

Marquand, John | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be."

Hubbard, Kin | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"You lose your manners when you're poor."

Hellman, Lillian | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."

Gray, Thomas | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

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

Dunne, Finley Peter | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

Bonaparte, Napoleon | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

Baldwin, James | Poverty and The Poor | 3 bookmarks

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Alito, Noelie | Action | 7 bookmarks