#poor

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#find #generally #house #living #men

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#money #nothing #poor #poorer #still

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. ↗

— John Sununu

#compliance #constant #constant need #cost #either

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly. ↗

— Katherine Fullerton Gerould

#lied #poor #regularly #which

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#breadth #child #class #climb #economy

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#comfort #disease #gout #humble #individuals

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend! ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#color #comprehend #could #friendly #heard

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#marry #poor #remember #rich #woman

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#few #few things #leaves #nothing #poorly

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#clothes #ever #invisible #known #make