If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

- Janis Joplin

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

- Henry George

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

- Voyage of the Beagle , Charles Darwin

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

- Laurence Sterne

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

- Baltasar Gracian

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

- Henny Youngman

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.

- William Morris

No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax.

- Anonymous