The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. — Willem de Kooning
If you know every show on Netflix and you're broke, you have a problem. You're lazy. — Patrick Bet-David
Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts — Fabolous
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. — Marilyn Monroe
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. — Ray Charles
We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. — Hillary Clinton
Short Being Broke Quotes
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. — Livy
I’m gonna be on a budget until the day I die. — Cardi B
Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still. — Billy Sunday
Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. — John Spence
A man without money is like a bow without arrows. — Indian Proverbs
A proud mind and an empty purse grow ill together. — Scottish Proverbs
There are men so poor that the only thing they have is money. — Icelandic Proverbs
Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don’t stay broke. — Isaac Mashman
You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream. — Randy Gage
Being Broke Image Quotes
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. — Frank Bruno
Best way to not get your heart broken, is pretend you don't have one.
Being Broke But Happy Quotes
You could live it up and be successful, but it wouldn't mean anything without love and friends. I could go broke and still be happy because love is all I need. — Omarion
Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir. — Ruta Sepetys
Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy. — Robert Plant
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money." They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy." — Aya Cash
It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications. — Rachel Cohn
Not Being Broke Quotes
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me. — Simon Cowell
We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square. — Vincent Price
Being broke is temporary, but poverty of mind is permanent.
If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming. — Robert Kiyosaki
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive. — Nicole Kidman
Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe. — Rex Stout
Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along. — Nicholas Sparks
We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes. — Glen Hansard
I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy. — Ian Thorpe
Movie Quotes
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes
You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed? — Wyatt Earp
See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody. — Frank Lucas
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. — Frank Lucas
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling
I Am Broke Quotes
I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there. — Markus Zusak
I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how many breakup songs I write, I'm always going to believe that someday I am going to meet somebody who is actually right for me and he's going to be wonderful and it's going to work out. — Taylor Swift
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. — Ben Folds
I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list? — Martin Luther
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead. — Conrad Aiken
I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse. — Kid Rock
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those. — Brooks Robinson
A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am. — Sayings
What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble. — Anais Nin
I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun! — Bryan Callen
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. — W. E. B. Du Bois
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. — Adam Smith
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. — Eminem
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind. — Ajahn Chah
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. — Nelson Mandela
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! — David Livingstone
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. — Dorothy Day
Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success! — Phil Heath
I'm So Broke Quotes
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function. — Sayings
I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke. — Joan Rivers
I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you. — Jodi Picoult
I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me. — Olivia Munn
I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now. — Billy Graham
I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on Sordid Lives, and I broke on The Office. Those are the only two times in my life. — Beth Grant
I've been touring every year since the band broke up. It's my job. It's what I love to do. So I'm all good with it. — Vince Neil
The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing, I don't know if I'm going to have to look what's in store for me at that level but fortunately, I broke in earlier. — Robert Greene
After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I’d never work again. So I’m going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn’t let me do. — George Hamilton
You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music. — Gerard Way
Being Cheap Quotes
True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know. — Desmond Tutu
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. — Enoch Powell
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach
What's the punch line here? Physiologically, it doesn't come cheap being a bastard 24 hours a day. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. — Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell
Don’t buy a stock just because it has had a big decline from its high and is therefore ‘cheap’. A stock can be cheap and yet not be attractive. — Thomas Phelps
Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive. — Nancy Reagan
The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action. — Howard Berman
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers. — Josiah Wedgwood
Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true — J. Cole
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. — Pablo Neruda
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor. — Townes Van Zandt
There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again. — John Hope Bryant
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken. — Leonard Ravenhill
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree. — William Morris
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces. — James Frey
I got started by couch surfing and being broke, homeless, without healthcare. — Tim Pool
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with. — Bob Goff
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke. — Tea Leoni
Every day that I’m alive, I’ma ride with the stick I’d rather be broke in jail than be dead and rich. — 21 Savage
You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful. — Eric Thomas
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured. — Tony Benn
My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. — Steven Pinker
I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system! — Katie Cassidy
Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one. — Toni Morrison
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties. — Kate Middleton
I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it's not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you've got to pay the price. — Flo Hyman
Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated. — Robert McNamara
A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
who's hungry and where their mouth is or
who's out of work and where the job is or
who's broke and where the money is or
who's carrying a gun and where the peace is. — Woody Guthrie
In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be. You Can Achieve Anything! — Dwayne Johnson
Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best. — Andrea Gibson
Like most bands we're a family, family before band. If we broke up tomorrow, we'd still be friends. — The Rev
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it! — Jamie Foxx
Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough. — Betty Jane Wylie
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