Thursday, July 30, 2009

Quotes: Poverty.

Poverty 102 "It’s no great step for a poor man to the grave;/ He’s lived his life out only half-alive." Palladas. 4th-5th century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.


Poverty 25 "Poverty has no shame." Spanish. Dictionary of Foreign Terms


Poverty 339 "They stayed, because poverty, that most supreme of masters, had deprived them of the liberty to rise up and go away." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. On why everyone in Europe did not come to the American frontier.

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