The Poor Quotes

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.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.

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.

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.

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

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

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.

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

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

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

Lying rides upon debt's back.

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

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way!

One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

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!

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.

Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.

No touching... Cashmere is highly sensitive to the oil in poor people's fingers.

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

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

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.