A New Disease: Lack-O-Money

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There were times my pants were so thin that I could sit on a dime and tell if it were heads or tails. – Spencer Tracy




He who has no bread has no authority. – Turkish Proverb



We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think. – Lord Rutherford



Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called a lack of money. – Francois Rabelais



I must say I hate money, but it’s the lack of it I hate most. – Katherine Mansfield



Necessity knows no Sunday. – Agnes Repplier

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There’s Another Advantage of Being Poor

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As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. – Buddy Hackett

There were times my pants were so thin that I could sit on a dime and tell if it were heads or tails. – Spencer Tracy

There’s another advantage of being poor – a doctor will cure you faster. – Frank McKinney

Prejudice saves a lot of time, because you can form an opinion without the facts. – anonymous

In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. – Martin Miemoller

When the whites came, we had the land and they had the Bibles. Now they have the land and we have the Bibles. – Chief Dan George