Piss Poor Performance

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or performance:

“Give me the free and poor inheritance
Of our own kind, not furniture
Of education, or the prophet’s pose,
The general cause of words, the hero’s stance,
The ambitions incommensurable with flesh,”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

“What avails it that you are a Christian, if you are not purer than the heathen, if you deny yourself no more, if you are not more religious? I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)