Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. Votes: 4
I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared. Votes: 4
It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven. Votes: 4
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! Votes: 4
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes. Votes: 4
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. Votes: 4
Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions. Votes: 4
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. Votes: 4
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul. Votes: 4