The Poor Quotes

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

No one ever became poor from giving.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water—well OK, not people in the developing world.

The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

The rich don't exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.

He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.

The poor know they are in need.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

Art without life is a poor affair.