Pittance Quotes

#1. I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

Wole Soyinka

#3. Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Ronald Reagan

#4. Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Robert Herrick

#5. I bought this place for a pittance, because it was a dump. Rejected, abandoned, unwanted. Like me. I fixed it up. Made it mine.

Jasinda Wilder

#6. The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.

William Jennings Bryan

#7. From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.

Julia Glass

#8. Capps earned over nine million last year and paid a pittance in taxes.

John Grisham

#9. If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.

Gilbert Harding

#10. Superiority to fate
Is difficult to learn.
'Tis not conferred by any,
But possible to earn
A pittance at a time,
Until, to her surprise,
The soul with strict economy
Subsists till Paradise.

Emily Dickinson

#11. The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Robert Owen

#12. What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets ...

Ernestine Rose

#13. Meanwhile the Mind of Pittance watched over them, and looked out into the resounding silence and the sun-freckled darkness of the spaces between the stars, forever content and ineffably satisfied with the absence of anything remotely interesting happening.

Iain M. Banks

#14. Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.

Jorge Luis Borges

#15. I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.

Gillian Jacobs

#16. I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#17. The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.

Pat Metheny

#18. If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

Anthea Turner

#19. I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

Joan Didion

#20. She is the fragrance of a dozen jasmines.

Avijeet Das

#21. The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.

Alexander Hamilton

#22. Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. The closer you'll look,
The farther you'll see !

Sarvesh Tiwari

#24. In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Ira Glass

#25. Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore.

Sheryl Crow

#26. I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Ann Widdecombe

#27. When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.

Mayank Chhaya

#28. I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.

Saint Augustine

#29. For 'worship' is an abbreviation of 'worthship'.

John R.W. Stott

#30. You are thirty minutes late."
"Yes."
"Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?"
"No."
"Why not, pray tell?"
"Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Charles Bukowski

#31. Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Henry Cabot Lodge