If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish Proverb Category: Poverty
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain – until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. – Jane Addams Category: Poverty
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot Category: Poverty
For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night. – Sophocles Category: Death
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes its sheer luck, like getting across the street. – E. B. White Category: Education
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter — when she won’t take her afternoon nap, and when she won’t let me take mine. – Gene Perret Category: Grandparents
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. – Alan Watts Category: Technology
