"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."

-- Theodore Parker

#Poverty Quotes #Standards Quotes

“I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.”
“[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.”
“I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.”
“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.”
“It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.”
“I was of the â€œWhen life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didnâ€™t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuffâ€ school of thought.”

Source : Colleen Hoover (2014). “Ugly Love”, p.189, Simon and Schuster
“For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.”

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