Poor Condition

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or condition:

“Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)