The Poor Quotes

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

A good headline can make an advertisement good even if the picture is poor.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

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.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.