A Quote by Samuel Richardson

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
English - Writer
August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761

There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.

Thomas Sherlock

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

John Lancaster Spalding

My children make me cry on a daily basis about everything. Tears of joy, tears of pain, tears of sadness - all the tears, all the time.

Busy Philipps

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

Philip James Bailey

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Douglas William Jerrold

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

John G. Lake

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

Rodman Philbrick

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

Patanjali

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Madonna Ciccone

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

Edmund Burke

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

Helen McCloy

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

Margaret Deland

It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.