The Poor Quotes

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Aristocrats have heirs; the poor have children; the rest keep dogs.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

[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.

Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

Oh, poor me (jokingly, after being told that Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez would make more in 2003 than he would). What do I do now? I guess I'll have to get a second job.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.