Quotes About Poorer

#1. Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

James Cook

#2. The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

Michael Parenti

#3. Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. I picked you. And then you picked me back. And that's like a promise.
At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer, 'Til dawn do us part.

John Green

#5. Now everyone is prouder and poorer

Orhan Pamuk

#6. The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.

Rob Liano

#7. Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.

Liu Cixin

#8. How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

Samuel Beckett

#9. It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

Enya

#10. Real love isn't just a euphoric, spontaneous feeling - it's a deliberate choice - a plan to love each other for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and in health.

Seth Adam Smith

#11. This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much poorer than they think most of us are, look enviously over those borders and would like, if they could, to come here.

George F. Kennan

#12. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.

George Foreman

#13. I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.

Michael Schiavo

#14. The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Steven Spielberg

#15. Charles, throughout his imprisonment, had had to pay heavily for his bad food, and for his guard, and towards the living of the poorer prisoners.

Charles Dickens

#16. Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

Mohsin Hamid

#17. I came home poorer by several hundred dollars and richer by more books than I could carry.

Sara Gruen

#18. It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Corey Feldman

#19. We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Herman Daly

#20. I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.

Michael Franti

#21. Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Edsger Dijkstra

#22. One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.

Tobias Wolff

#23. And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer.

Hugh Dennis

#24. Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Lee Hall

#25. Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.

Santosh Kalwar

#26. To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Sam Brownback

#27. It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

Ludwig Von Mises

#28. The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#29. Just before our wedding, a German coffee farmer warned me that I was about to make a big mistake. "The longer you live in Arusha, the poorer you'll be," he said. "Don't give up your life in America. There is nothing for you here." My

Sara Tucker

#30. He who has no money is poor; he who has nothing but money is even poorer.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#31. Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them ... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm's length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you've pushed them away and you're the poorer.

Elizabeth Goudge

#32. Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#33. So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?

Peter Wohlleben

#34. Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

Gough Whitlam

#35. Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

Marco Rubio

#36. In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Mitt Romney

#37. The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Marco Rubio

#38. The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

David Hare

#39. Do we really mean it when we say 'in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, 'unless you shame me or disappoint me?' What is the cost of unconditional love and how capable are we of giving that?

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#40. I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.

Jack D. Forbes

#41. Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

Freeman Dyson

#42. I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#43. If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#44. You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Walt Disney Company

#45. Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

George Foreman

#46. Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Dolly Parton

#47. To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, as long as you both shall live, including accidental or intentional immortality?

Chloe Neill

#48. There's only that one picture of me, standing in front of the motel door with 9 on it, long ago, a month ago. Already that child seems much younger, poorer, farther away, a shrunken, ignorant version of myself.

Margaret Atwood

#49. He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer in homecomings.

Gregory Maguire

#50. It's through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make.

Robert Kiyosaki

#51. My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

Joss Whedon

#52. So much gold reached Europe from India and America that burghers grew richer and richer as knights and landowners grew poorer and poorer.

E.H. Gombrich

#53. A Spartan, seeing a man taking up a collection for the gods, said that he did not think much of gods who were poorer than himself.

Plutarch

#54. Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#55. You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

Henry B. Eyring

#56. An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

Denis Healey

#57. By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.

Evan Osnos

#58. People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Theodor Adorno

#59. Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.

Bernie Sanders

#60. People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich ... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

Mao Zedong

#61. I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

Rory Bremner

#62. Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#63. Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

J.K. Rowling

#64. To the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

Margaret Mead

#65. No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

Dudley North

#66. The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#67. Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

Jane Fonda

#68. Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#69. No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.

Chris Pavesic

#70. The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

Andre Geim

#71. The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

William Weld

#72. My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

Shia Labeouf

#73. The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer

Sunday Adelaja

#74. The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Orison Swett Marden

#75. Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.

Hal Holbrook

#76. One of the rules of the sane world ... the poor keep getting poorer, and the rich keep getting ... richer.

Cameron Jace

#77. Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.

Christopher Earle

#78. It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don't divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

Will Rogers

#79. The poorer we are
inwardly,
the more we try to
enrich ourselves
outwardly.

Bruce Lee

#80. How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

Henry George

#81. The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Billy Sunday

#82. Let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

Rabindranath Tagore

#83. That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

William Petty

#84. The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

Fidel Castro

#85. Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there has been a leap in bribes.

Barry Unsworth

#86. It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser, until the very last day.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#87. Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Alain De Botton

#88. With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.

Vilem Flusser

#89. If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.

David Harsanyi

#90. The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Richard Branson

#91. I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.

Michael Craig-Martin

#92. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#93. If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

Adam Davidson

#94. Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help ...

Walter Benjamin

#95. What's your name?" was my first question. I couldn't keep calling him Squirty though my pants were proof of the moniker's accurateness.
"James Franco."
"Like the actor?" I couldn't help but ask.
His expression eased into a smile. "Yes, but poorer and uglier.

Jeaniene Frost

#96. What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Athol Fugard

#97. He learned that love is not all pleasure, but can be agony and heartache, martyrdom and sacrifice. He learned what the clergyman was talking about in the marriage service: for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part.

Upton Sinclair

#98. I self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#99. My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

Rickie Lee Jones

#100. The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

Milton Friedman