For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner Category: Poverty
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. – Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900 Category: Poverty
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams Category: Imagination
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. – Proverb Category: Prejudice
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age. – Debra Winger Category: Age
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. – Anthony Holden Category: teacher