#poo

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#books #him #interested #kid #parents

He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ↗

— Jules Michelet

#how #knows #poor #who

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs? ↗

— Rand Paul

#jobs #just #people #poor #poor people

I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better. ↗

— Bessie Smith

#better #i #poor #rich

I like to spoon after I fork. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fork #funny #humor #spoon #witty

I can tell you kids grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. When I was your age, we took a bath once a week on Saturday night, and all of us used the same bath water. ↗

— K. Martin Beckner

#silver-spoon #age

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life. ↗

— Edgar Lee Masters

#spoon-river-anthology #anger

There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place. ↗

— F. Sionil José

#art

Erlaube," fuhr Meister Abraham fort, "erlaube, mein Johannes, mit dem Just magst du mich kaum vergleichen. Er rettete einen Pudel, ein Tier, das jeder gern um sich duldet, von dem sogar angenehme Dienstleistungen zu erwarten, mittelst Apportieren, Handschuhe-, Tabaksbeutel- und Pfeife-Nachtragen usw., aber ich rettete einen Kater, ein Tier, vonr dem sich viele entsetzen, das allgemein als perfid, keiner sanften, wohlwollenden Gesinnung, keiner offenherzigen Freundschaft fähig ausgeschrieen wird, das niemals ganz und gar die feindliche Stellung gegen den Mensch aufgibt, ja, einen Kater rettete ich aus purer uneigennütziger Menschenliebe ... Es ist das gescheiteste, artigste, ja witzigste Tier der Art, das man sehen kann, dem es nur noch an der höhern Bildung fehlt, die du, mein lieber Johannes, ihm mit leichter Mühe beibringen wirst. ↗

— Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

#dogs #perception #poodles #preconceptions #prejudice

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright. ↗

— Edward O. Wilson

#bad-attitude #etiquette #good-manners #ill-mannered-scientists #impoliteness