Quotes About Being Penniless

#1. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

Paulette Jiles

#2. New York is like a disco, but without the music

Elaine Stritch

#3. Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

Joni Mitchell

#4. Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

Joyce Meyer

#5. Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

#6. Him. yes, Withen. You would be very proud. I know I am.

Anonymous

#7. What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.

Carolyn See

#8. But what hope is there for the world, if a nation of penniless peasants can't try to climb up out of the mud without being crushed under the jackboot of Uncle Sam?

Ken Follett

#9. We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

Malorie Blackman

#10. An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

Thomas Sowell