#poor

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#become #class #contractor #every #father

Sex - the poor man's polo. ↗

— Clifford Odets

#polo #poor #sex

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#become #claim #democratic #democratic party #democrats

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#delight #every #every man #fools #gazing

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#great #great men #melancholy #men #poor

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World. ↗

— William Petty

#ever #evil #many #naturally #old

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#i #like #live #lots #man

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. ↗

— Albert Pike

#almost #artisans #artists #been #genius

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#now #poor #rich #satan #tempts

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#god #hears #him #indian #mind