Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“One banquet in a rich family could feed a poor man’s family for half a year.”
—Chinese proverb.

“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can’t even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)

“To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)