Top 23 Poorhouse Quotes
#1. God will never leave nor forsake you even at the time of the most difficult trials
Sunday Adelaja
#2. I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.
Marie Dressler
#3. Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!
Jules Verne
#4. it is easy to see how Stanley's painful poorhouse childhood may have fostered his cruel streak and the drive to place his mark on the world. The origin of the fiery passion for justice that fueled Morel is less evident. He
Adam Hochschild
#5. The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.
Joseph Campbell
#6. On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I'd be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in my old age, if I could look back now on having been the fine artist I might have been.
Eugene O'Neill
#7. No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#8. Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
George Horace Lorimer
#9. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte
#10. In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#11. We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
Will Rogers
#12. They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
Henry Ward Beecher
#13. From flophouse bed
To poorhouse bread,
all outhouse sorrow:
I thee wed.
Roman Payne
#14. I read that young Netalia Lackless had run away with a troupe of traveling performers.
Patrick Rothfuss
#15. I had two beady brown eyes that, no matter how hard I tried to look mysterious and cool, always seemed to say "It wasn't just me who farted.
Brian Katcher
#16. The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.
Dawn Fotopulos
#17. I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
Dwight L. Moody
#18. This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#19. Folk said he had once been a scholar and written books and learned and learned till his brain fair softened and right off his head he'd gone and into the poorhouse asylum.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
#20. In that moment, we were the same, each of us destroyed by our limited understanding of reality.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#21. As the six, in file, passed into the poorhouse proper they clicked off glances of disdain with industrial precision.
John Updike
#22. My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.
Henry Czerny
#23. Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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