The Poor Quotes

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

He is not poor who has a competency.

A great artist is never poor.

Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.

Once you are sincere in your fast, you have a sensitivity to the hurt and pain of others who are poor, who are not eating well, who are in areas where there is drought and other calamities.

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor!

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

Even the poor should give something to charity.