Famous Quotes - Tags - Hard Times

  • As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which... More
  • As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head. More
  • Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. More
  • Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. More
  • But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients.... More
  • Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? More
  • Elena de la Madriaga: Ladies and gentleman, it seems like if the only embarrassment here tonight... More
  • every cloud
    has its silver
    lining but it is
    sometimes a little
    difficult to get... More
  • For men must work, and women must weep,
    And there’s little to earn, and many to... More
  • Hardship makes the world obscure. More
  • Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole... More
  • In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It... More
  • In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as... More
  • Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top—or on the bottom. I guess... More
  • Listen, that’s the one that done it. The dusters. They started it anyways. Blowin’ like this... More
  • Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats,... More
  • Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their... More
  • Scared, huh. I ain’t never gonna be scared no more. I was though. For a while it looked as... More
  • The clothes on your back did not wear out and your feet did not swell these forty years. More
  • The world ‘s a bubble, and the life of man
    Less then a span:
    In his conception... More
  • There was a time we was on the land. There was a boundary to us then. Old folks died off and... More
  • They live everywhere
    on forest grass and water
    that they’ve taken for... More
  • Thy fate is the common fate of all;
    Into each life some rain must fall. More
  • Twenty-two weeks the men were out as the strike moved into winter. It was strange to go out into... More
  • When you are down and out something always turns up—and it is usually the noses of your friends. More
  • When you’re outa luck in this man’s country, you certainly are outa luck. More
  • Woe to whomever laughs once and gets used to it because life’s treacherousness knows no bounds... More

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