“Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“Very few people can afford to be poor.”
George Bernard Shaw
“If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now”
Jack Handy
“A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
Ernest Boyer
“The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them”
Bill Vaughn
“The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.”
