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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Quote by Winston Churchill

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Quote by Princess Diana about wealth, happiness

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Quote by Charles Dickens about truth, man

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Quote by Charles Dickens about man

If you did well, you were rewarded with middle-class neighborhoods, and I was given a neighborhood with tar-paper shacks, and the people were painfully poor.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, contentment, people

I was so poor. They wouldn't let me on the floor as a salesperson, because I was so poorly dressed. And so I was the stockroom boy.

Quote by Josh Duhamel

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Quote by Eminem

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about teachers, students, parents, money, people

Of course, everything is not perfect. We see high unemployment and low productivity growth, but these are (as previous speakers have emphasized) the result of poor structural policies rather than inappropriate monetary policy.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about perfection

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about economy

So, I truly don't know what my mom was doing financially. I know that we ate, and times weren't like they are now. I don't know that my mother could have achieved all she achieved on her income today. In today's market, at her income level, I'm...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about stores, mother

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Quote by Henry Ford about affair, money, nothing

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Quote by Frank Herbert about man, wealth

This paper back is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about humor

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, man

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, liberty, enemies, happiness, human imperfections, contentment

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, man

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck, contentment, money

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor...

Quote by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. about defeat, suffering, victory, failure, things