Poor Men Quotes

Poor Men Quote of the day

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.