Quote by Josh Billings
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. - Josh Billings

Poverty is the step-mother of genius. – Josh Billings

Other quotes by Josh Billings

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. – Josh Billings

Category:
Eating
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings

Category:
Poverty
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Other Quotes from
Poverty
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True poverty does not come from God. – Yiddish Proverb

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Poverty

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night. – William Blake

Category:
Poverty

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner

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Poverty

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. – Willem de Kooning

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Poverty

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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. – Raymond Chandler

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Attitude

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…. We need silence to be able to touch souls. – Mother Teresa

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Silence