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“The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.”
Aldo Gucci
“A poor person is often worthy.”
Irish Proverb
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other”
Oscar Ameringer
“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
“I was so poor growing up - if I wasn't a boy - I'd have had nothing to play with”
Rodney Dangerfield
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”
W. C. Fields
“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.”
Jules Feiffer
“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”
Anatole France
“Poverty consist in feeling poor.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson