A Quote by Mark Twain

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

John Kasich

That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

John Kasich

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

James Earl Jones

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

Baruch Spinoza

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

James Hilton

The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

Gwen Moore

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Madeleine M. Kunin

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

Joe Perry

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

Duke of Wellington

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

Ha-Joon Chang

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

Muhammad Yunus

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

Neal Brennan

When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

Gregory Rabassa

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

Teju Cole

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