The Poor Quotes

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect.

Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.

Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.

And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Walk with the rich Walk with the poor Learn from everybody That's what life is for.

The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

I've lost a lot of jobs because I was too pretty. And everybody's like "Oh, poor you." But seriously, you don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.