#poor

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#flesh #home #house #poor #ribs

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. ↗

— Hesiod

#craftsman #grudge #jealous #poet #poor

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up? ↗

— James Hillman

#approach #ask #cars #cost #doctor

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#doorstop #find #hardcover #i #interesting

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#doorstop #find #hardcover #i #interesting

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bought #cheap #combined #folk #i

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#does #how #know #live #living

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#being #black #ever #hard #i

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

#country #escape #first #homes #occasion