The Poor Quotes

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Avarice is always poor.

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.

If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.

If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Only poor people go to jail.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.