Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“One may be old in years, but not in spirit, or poor in wealth, but not in ambition.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal.... No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

“To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)