For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.