Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Edward Kennedy

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Benjamin Franklin

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Amy Fessler

We want them to think of it as their gym. That way, they'll grow up thinking exercise is fun, and not something you dread doing.

Douglas Coupland

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

John Howe

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Laurie Graham

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

Lars Tiffany

We had a wonderful year last year. And ever since it ended we've been worried about that dreaded sophomore slump.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Michael Woods

Lots of women dread the thought of putting on a swimsuit after a long winter. If you haven't been working out, you're probably self-conscious about showing your body. Even when you're in good shape, you feel better about some spots than others.

Laura Linney

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Tea Leoni

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.