The Poor Quotes

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!

O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.

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.

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

an imitator is always a poor example.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

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.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.