I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Alexander Pope

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?
William J. Clinton

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith

Money is a poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan

Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
Emma Goldman

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Sojourner Truth

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke