Pastoral Resources

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

Money is a good servant, but a poor master.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

He who hesitates is poor.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor.

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.