The Poor Quotes

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life.

If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

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

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?

I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.