#poo

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#i #i was born #mouth #plastic #spoon

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store. ↗

— Edward Dyer

#crave #i #i am #little #more

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#best #equal #family #food #greater

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered. ↗

— Barney Frank

#actively #also #decisions #etc #how

I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town. ↗

— The Harvard Lampoon

#nightlight #paranormal-romance #twilight-parody #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#dirtiest #drawings #huts #i #i see

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— John Mason Good

#consists #happiness #pool #running #stagnant

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#committee #diving #enter #essentially #evaluation

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#idle #just #know #never #poor

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam