Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When I discovered that history is a fable, and a poor one at that, I started looking for a better fable, and found theology. Halldór Laxness
I am a surfer, though quite a poor one. Chris Weitz
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. William Graham Sumner
Do not run into debt with a rich man, or promise anything to a poor one. Cuban Proverb