Quotes About Lean times

In some ways, a relationship is like a savings account: during good times, you both pay in, and in the lean times there's enough to see you through. Right now, I'm heavily overdrawn.

Yule is supposed to be a celebration and a consolation, a moment of warm brightness in the heart of winter, a time to eat because you know that the lean times are coming when food will be scarce and ice locks the land, and a time to be happy and get drunk and behave irresponsibly and wake up the next morning wondering if you will ever feel well again, but the West Saxons handed the feast to the priests who made it as joyous as a funeral.

Yule is supposed to be a celebration and a consolation, a moment of warm brightness in the heart of winter, a time to eat because you know that the lean times are coming when food will be scarce and ice locks the land, and a time to be happy and get drunk and behave irresponsibly and wake up the next morning wondering if you will ever feel well again, but the West Saxons handed the feast to the priests who made it as joyous as a funeral. I

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.