Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

Ladies first." "Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

Complaint is poverty.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.