The Poor Quotes

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.