Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.