“There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.”

“Being broke is against my religion.”

50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer

“Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

“Right from his childhood, Vinayak found the caste system that plagued Hindu society reprehensible. In his own little way he broke these barriers. Despite being an upper-caste Brahmin, and a landlord at that, all his childhood friends were from poor backgrounds and belonged to the supposed lower castes.”

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, writer and playwright

“I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.”

Ornette Coleman (1930–2015) American jazz musician

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“The five-fold difference between God, living and non-living beings is an eternal fact”

Madhvacharya (1199–1278) Hindu philosopher who founded Dvaita Vedanta school

“Tulsidas was a poor recluse who lived an ascetic life and prompted by an inner light, adapted an old epic in folk-verse which broke all barriers and spread far and wide.”

Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint

“Rich people didn’t get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws passed by people who broke them with impunity.”

Sheri S. Tepper book Grass