Poorhouses Workhouses Quotes & Sayings

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. — Seneca The Younger

When you spend your whole life faking happiness, it becomes a second emotion. — Jay McLean

I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means that you have to try a little bit of everything in the hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note or new sound or new expression in the process. I'm not going for grades. I'm going for an education. That means I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn. — Nicolas Cage

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. — W. Somerset Maugham

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations. — Anton Chekhov

It is pure id. Freud would not approve. He regarded the obvious with the same contempt most of us reserve for wine spritzers. — Eric Weiner

We must distinguish between 'sentimental' and 'sensitive'. A sentimentalist may be a perfect brute in his free time. A sensitive person is never a cruel person. Sentimental Rousseau, who could weep over a progressive idea, distributed his many natural children through various poorhouses and workhouses and never gave a hoot for them. A sentimental old maid may pamper her parrot and poison her niece. The sentimental politician may remember Mother's Day and ruthlessly destroy a rival. Stalin loved babies. Lenin sobbed at the opera, especially at the Traviata. — Vladimir Nabokov