When an empire fears for its survival, its prime has passed.

Quote by Martin Dansky

Topics: Survival Quotes

(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of...

(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of...

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

Some sincerity will serve well in the long run but total sincerity is often detrimental.

Some sincerity will serve well in the long run but total sincerity is often detrimental.

It is not only easier to find fault with another person than to examine one's...

It is not only easier to find fault with another person than to examine one's...

Being sincere to earn a woman's respect, doesn't guarantee an equal return.

Being sincere to earn a woman's respect, doesn't guarantee an equal return.

Thrift shop popularity parallels increased poverty.

Thrift shop popularity parallels increased poverty.

Look to the next world for perfection, look at this one for its opposite.

Look to the next world for perfection, look at this one for its opposite.

Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing...

Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing...

Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are...

Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are...

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make...

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make...

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty...

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Of course there's a different law for the rich and poor; otherwise, who would go...

Of course there's a different law for the rich and poor; otherwise, who would go...

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

And makes me poor indeed.

And makes me poor indeed.