“Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?”

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works and Days
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?" by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

Related quotes

“the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.”

Karen Hesse book Out of the Dust

Source: Out of the Dust

Warren Zevon photo

“When I was young, times were hard.
When I got older it was worse.”

Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter

"The Long Arm of the Law"
Transverse City (1989)

Adlai Stevenson photo

“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN

As quoted in The Stevenson Wit (1965) edited by Bill Adler

Husayn ibn Ali photo

“People are slaves to the world, and as long as they live favorable and comfortable lives, they are loyal to religious principles. However, at hard times, the times of trials, true religious people are scarce.”

Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 117
General Quotes

Alan Kotok photo

“It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.”

Alan Kotok (1941–2006) American computer scientist

on business travel; quoted in [John E. McNamara, Remembering Alan's Humor, 2006, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/2006Jun/0009.html, 2006-12-26]

Thomas Sowell photo

“Time was when people used to brag about how old they were -- and I am old enough to remember it.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

Robert T. Kiyosaki photo

“When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

Maya Angelou photo

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Orson Scott Card photo

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.

“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do.”

William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor

Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 2, Simplicity, p. 12.

Related topics