The Poor Quotes

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

Poor Petey. I’d like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I’d rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.

He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them.

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?

Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Being poor is a normal thing.

People who are poor, they suffer a lot. And people drink a lot and people take a lot of downers and there's a lot of unemployment.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]

Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

He that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he that needs but five.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

Do you recall Fred Merriville?” She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?” “The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.