Thomas Brooks Quotes

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that ’s never read,— To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

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

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is deserted by his neighbor.

I do this work, but I am uncomfortable in situations where you're hyped into something you're not. Just because you're in a long limo doesn't mean anything.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.