Poor Man Quotes

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

Only poor men get hanged.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Bells, the poor man's only music.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Poor man. Poor mankind.

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.