Quotes About Penury

#1. Penury was a matter of hard chairs and mean cushions; prosperity - old money - was a matter of feathers: an absurd reductionist view of it, but at times quite strikingly true.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. gloomy, pensive, discontented temper This melancholy flatters, but unmans you; What is it else but penury of soul, A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind? - JOHN DRYDEN AT

Henry Hitchings

#3. In spite of our penury and deprivation, we did not ever lose faith in God. If

M.C. Mary Kom

#4. In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest
usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation
and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

John Millington Synge

#5. Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd,
And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

William Cowper

#6. In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Anonymous

#7. Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

M.H. Abrams

#8. Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

Oscar Wilde

#9. The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

Samuel Johnson

#10. I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

Almeida Garrett

#11. Man's feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

Thomas Gray

#12. Lamont, like the judge?"
He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.

Denise Mina

#13. The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be ... is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance, and in penury.

Hudson Taylor

#14. I loved doing 'Teachers.' I don't know if it's set me on a road, but it certainly got me out of financial penury for two years. But as much as I love it - and it's a huge sacrifice - as much as I love it, I'm in acting because I'm searching to do lots of different things.

Raquel Cassidy

#15. Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Thomas Gray

#16. The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

Frederick Soddy

#17. If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

Orison Swett Marden

#18. Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#19. Inspire, share Love, join hands, open hearts..
We are here for each other

Laurel Burch

#20. Being a Junglepreneur is about the ability to build a business in any location and then ensure that it survives and thrives by all legal means.

David Oludotun Fasanya

#21. Jeremy: "Who did it? Wait-you think I did. Don't you?"
Ash: "It did cross our minds at one point. Actually, it seemed to keep crossing them. Back and forth. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.

L.J.Smith

#22. I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

Andy Summers

#23. Some players are so bad they are hated. Some players are so bad they are forgotten. And some are so bad that they are loved, talked about, treasured.

John Foot

#24. Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made ...

Philip Roth