"Funny thing is that the poorer people..." - Quote by Dolly Parton
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
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“I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.”
“You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't putwings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.”
“It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.”
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“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
“Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.”
“You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.”
More on Poverty
“There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the halfshirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over theshoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.”
“I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.”
“There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.”