The Poor Quotes

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

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

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

There's no future in being poor.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

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.

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

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

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

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.