A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
Hugo Chavez

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
James Hillman

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell

Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Thomas Fuller

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.
Paul Farmer

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
Paul Farmer

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.
Tim McGraw

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
Loretta Lynn

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.
Loretta Lynn

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
Evita Peron

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Evita Peron

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Evita Peron

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Evita Peron

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr