The Poor Quotes

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

The used key is always bright.

Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

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.

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

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

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

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings, and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

Believe in poverty and you will be poor. Believe in wealth and you will be rich. Believe in love and you will have love. Believe in health and you will be healthy.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.