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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| He is now rising from affluence to poverty. -- Mark Twain | |
| Poverty begins at home. | |
| Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. -- Don Herold | |
| When neither their poverty nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. -- Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| poverty, n.: An unfortunate state that persists as long as anyone lacks anything he would like to have. | |
| Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic traveling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permanent residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone-call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent-flyer programs at parties. -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
| Poverty Lurks: Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents. -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
| It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. -- Kim Hubbard | |
| A Dublin lawyer died in poverty and many barristers of the city subscribed to a fund for his funeral. The Lord Chief Justice of Orbury was asked to donate a shilling. "Only a shilling?" exclaimed the man. "Only a shilling to bury an attorney? Here's a guinea; go and bury twenty of them." | |
| Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. | |
| We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis | |
| Yow! I just went below the poverty line! | |
