Poor Living Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words poor, living and/or conditions:

“Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)