Poor High Altitude

Famous quotes containing the words poor, high and/or altitude:

“‘Tis better to be righteous and poor than to be in crooked and rich.”
—Chinese proverb.

“But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch’s high estate;”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)