Jerome K. Jerome book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"On Being Hard Up".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat
res angusta domi.
III, line 164.
Variant translation: Slow rises Worth, by Poverty deprest.
As translated by Samuel Johnson
Satires, Satire III
Jerome K. Jerome book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"On Being Hard Up".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
“He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
"Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm" (1869), anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches http://books.google.com/books?id=UwcCAAAAQAAJ (1872)
“Trust is a precious quality. An essential quality. Once lost it is not quick or easy to rebuild.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)
“Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.”
Christine Feehan book Dark Destiny
Source: Dark Destiny
“This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed —
Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 176–177
“A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.”
Jonah Goldberg (1969) American political writer and pundit
February 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20010105/www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah021501.asp <br class="br">2000s, 2001
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Aphorism 22
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel
Context: From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
Flora Thompson book Lark Rise
Source: Lark Rise, ch. 1, Poor People's Houses
Achim Steiner (1961) German politician
"UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet, The Guardian, 2 June 2010.
“Quality men are not afraid of quality women.”
Bernadette Lahai (1960) Sierra Leonean politician
30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone), Anna Cady, 2018-06-18 https://vimeo.com/43595116,