Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre, French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, political activist. The Devil and the Good Lord, act 1, Gallimard (1951)

“The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
They are no wealthier than I;
But with as brave a core within
They rear their boughs to the October sky.
Poor knights they are which bravely wait
The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
Keeping a simple Roman state,
Discumbered of their Persian luxury.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Now you roll
in your sleep, seasick
on your own breathing, poor old convict.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)