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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Poor,

"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Poor,

"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Poor,

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Poor,

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

Poor, Will

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Poor, Right, Wonder

"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Poor,

"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Poor, Republicans, Vote

"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Poor,

"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Poor, Property, Right

Explore more quotes by August Wilson

"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."

Play

"Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone."

Awards

"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."

Now

"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."

Experience

"Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history."

History

"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."

Play

"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."

Love

"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."

First

"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."

Poor