Plautus Quotes

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

I've known what it's like to survive without a steady job. Growing up in the Philippines, I watched my parents juggle part-time jobs at the corner shop and as tailors, barely able to make ends meet for my three brothers and me.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I grew up poor.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.