True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. Votes: 2
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. Votes: 2
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well. Votes: 2
Connection starves suspicion. Votes: 0
Integrity is praised, and starves. Votes: 0
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. Votes: 0
Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine. Votes: 0
Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death. Votes: 0
Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies. Votes: 0
Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect. Votes: 0
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint Votes: 0
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves. Votes: 0
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. Votes: 0
The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. Votes: 0
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls. Votes: 0
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. Votes: 0
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. Votes: 0
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. Votes: 0
The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come. Votes: 0
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form. Votes: 0
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable Votes: 0
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls. Votes: 0
Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.