#poo

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

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#cannot #children #deal #god #integrity

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american #back #front #great #great responsibility

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ↗

— Robert Jarvik

#concept #developed #fear #leaders #odds

And I know how many DJ pools have grown and I know how DJing has grown in the overall, but that was the technical side of it to me. DJs were rolling around, looking for stuff to buy and looking to see what was in the store when they get there. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#buy #dj #djs #get #grown

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. ↗

— Joseph Jefferson

#am #anything #cannot #everything #i

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#apply #demands #devours #experience #general

I was raised really poor and so was my husband. ↗

— Jewel

#i #i was raised #poor #raised #really