The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Willem de Kooning

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
Bill Vaughan

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
Bill Vaughan

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
Norman Mailer

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
Marilyn vos Savant

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.
Jimmy Swaggart

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann Landers

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
Muhammad Yunus

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
Muhammad Yunus

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Jean Piaget

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France