#poor

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#belonging #comforted #community #free #free nations

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#being #country #environments #great #great men

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#clever people #i #i think #people #poor

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#enjoy #man #millions #money #nothing

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. ↗

— John Malkovich

#excuse #great #i #matters #nothing

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#decent #die #family #heard #i

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor. ↗

— Michael Irvin

#brings #denzel #denzel washington #favorite #field

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#between #desires #enjoyments #every #every man

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. ↗

— Michelangelo

#art #extend #given #god #i