Poor Relief

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or relief:

“Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!—subjected to imaginary evils when it has no real ones to disturb it! and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies as if it was struggling with the pains of a present distress!”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“I done et so free o’ fish, my stommick rises and falls with the tide.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)