The fact that rich people get free stuff and poor people have to pay, it's backwards.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.
Fueled by the kindness and generosity of strangers, 'Food for the Poor' builds houses for people.
I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.
If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get sick, and God help you if you do.'
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
