Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

““Poor but happy” is not a phrase invented by a poor person.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The centuries will burn rich loads
With which we groaned,
Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids,
While songs are crooned:
But they will not dream of us poor lads,
Left in the ground.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)