George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
“473. Hope is the poor man's bread.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Speech at Edinburgh (24 November 1882), from in G. Cecil, The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury. Volume III, p. 65
1880s
“We are in great hopes about poor Lydia.”
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) British composer, writer and grocer
An honest and ingenious motherly woman in our neighbourhood has undertaken the perfect cure of her, and we have every reason to think, with God's blessing, she will succeed- which is a blessing we shall owe entirely to the comfort of being poor, for had we been rich, the doctors would have had the honor of killing her a twelvemonth ago.
(from vol 1, letter 28: 4 Oct 1775, to Miss L___ ) [sadly, little Lydia Sancho died in 1776]
“Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
“As their shepherd have a deep concern for the condition of my flock. Help us, save our souls.”
Joseph Theodorus Suwatan (1940) Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop
Bishop Urges U.N. Intervention as More Christian Villages Attack https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/2001/12/04/bishop-urges-un-intervention-as-more-christian-villages-attacked&post_id=19714 (3 December 2001)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, The Young American (1844)
Theda Bara (1885–1955) Silent film actress
Reportedly said around the time of her retirement, circa 1926, as quoted in Women, Women, Women: Quips, Quotes, and Commentary (1977) by Leta W. Clark, p. 16
“That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums