When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.