"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

Twain, Mark on fiction
8 fans of this quote   

"I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments."

Marquand, John on poverty and the poor   

"A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on poverty and the poor   

"It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be."

Hubbard, Kin on poverty and the poor   

"You lose your manners when you're poor."

Hellman, Lillian on poverty and the poor   

"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."

Gray, Thomas on poverty and the poor   

"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it."

Dunne, Finley Peter on poverty and the poor   

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on poverty and the poor
4 fans of this quote   

"Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

Baldwin, James on poverty and the poor
3 fans of this quote   

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Alito, Noelie on action
12 fans of this quote   

"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on language
3 fans of this quote   

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

Landor, Walter Savage on goals   

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Hughes, Charles Evans on freedom
3 fans of this quote   

"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."

Ball, Ivern on advice
26 fans of this quote   

"I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty."

Marx, Groucho on poverty and the poor
7 fans of this quote