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"He that is down can fall no lower." »Samuel Butler
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"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes." »Oswald Spengler
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"The higher the buildings, the lower the morals." »Noel Coward
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"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." »Victor Hugo
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"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head." »Carole Burnett
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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller
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"No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class." »Paul Fussell
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"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry." »Havelock Ellis
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"Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty..." »Senator William Grayson
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"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones." »I Ching
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"Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God." »W. E. Orchard
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"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist." »Ayn Rand
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"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives." »Goldsmith
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"The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time." »Johannes Meister Eckhart
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"We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
Higher emotions, and table manners." »Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
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"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success." »Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
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"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class." »Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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"There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class." »Judith Martin
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"Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom." »Forest McDonald
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"Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be more than expenditures (surplus), then the economic health of the country is good, because the government can afford to invest in development projects such as research and development, education and infrastructure. With more income, the government can also afford to lower taxes, which increase corporate profits and attracts more foreign investors, resulting in more economic activities, creating more jobs and enlarging the consumer spending and government revenues overall despite income tax cuts. It is what I call a virtuous economic cycle." »Med Jones
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"Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be more than expenditures (surplus), then the economic health of the country improves, because the government can afford to invest in development projects such as research and development, education and infrastructure. With more income, the government can also afford to lower taxes, which increases corporate profits and attracts more foreign investors, resulting in more economic activities, creating more jobs and enlarging consumer spending and government revenues despite income tax cuts. It is what I call a virtuous economic cycle." »Med Jones
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