“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!”
Emma Goldman
“A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
Ernest Boyer
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
Charles Darwin
“If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor; if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.”
Seneca
“I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Today, at least here in the US, the only thing that has exceeded our poor choice in clothing is our terrible manners. I do not know how long I might live, but I’ll not ask for another second in this bargain basement society.”
Bobby W. Miller
