Limited Means Quotes

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

The paradox of having wars with big objectives, at least in declaratory terms, but only being ready to use limited means and limited levels of mobilization to fight them, puts you in a pretty confused place.

I've pretty much always lived paycheck to paycheck. I never considered it struggling, but it has always been a high-wire act.

Writers, most of them, don't have a lot of resources.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

When you're poor, an egg sandwich is dinner and you cut your potatoes with a butter knife.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!

When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

I've always had big dreams and very little means.

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.