The Poor Quotes

Oppression makes a poor country.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

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.

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

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.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins.

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.

I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.