#poor

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. ↗

— Ovid

#counts #everywhere #fortune #friendships #honors

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#doubtful #far #happiness #i #i think

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues. ↗

— William Vickrey

#government #impact #indicator #nominal #poor

I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid. ↗

— Neko Case

#am #another #anyone #being #comes

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#fashion #industry #levied #poor #rich

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cry #did #her #independent #less

I grew up poor. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#i #poor #up

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice. ↗

— Joan Chen

#china #could #enough #had #hunger

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia. ↗

— Cher

#being #death #fat #feel #girl

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#dream #football #i #leather #poor