Famous quotes containing the word poor:
“I tell you there isnt a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless its bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
Who came sure from a sea of light?
Or since those drops are all sent back
So sure to thee, that none doth lack,
Why should frail flesh doubt any more
That what God takes, Hell not restore?”
—Henry Vaughan (16221695)
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