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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

Life, Wise, Fool

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure, Live, Win

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Life, Nothing, Idiot

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Work, Lonely, Humble

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Past, Peaceful, Wars

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peaceful, Wars, Carving

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War, Tomorrow, Carve

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience, Rich, General

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Society, Help, Rich

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

Love, Money, God

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Life, Love, Work

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion, Rich, Keeps

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

War, Country, Die

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

Love, Men, Help

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill

Sorry, Cannot, Brilliant

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

Patience, Wound, Heal

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

Money, Nothing, Rich

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare

Enough, Rich, Content

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

Good, Men, Easy

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Rich

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Rich, Makes

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle

Power, Democracy, Rich

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

Money, Business, Nothing

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Dreams, Feet, Softly

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Rich, Poverty

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

Nature, God, Men

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give, Through, Rich

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