Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Rod McKuen

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

Samuel Johnson

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Thomas Shepard

I know it is the misery of men; they can make nothing of this till they feel it.

Joseph Heller

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Pancho Villa

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

Owen Feltham

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

Jimmy Hoffa

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

John Fowles

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

Josh Billings

It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Samuel Johnson

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

William Faulkner

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

William Graham Sumner

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

Robert G. Allen

Many things can make you rich, but only a few things can enrich you.

Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Kyle Petty

I never thought I had to live up to Richard Petty, ... I never had to live up to anything but what I expected.

Napoleon Hill

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

Epicurus

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Woody Allen

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Sandra Cisneros

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.