The Poor Quotes

That difference between the rich and poor is growing every month.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I'd feel more comfortable talking to the blacks, or Hispanics, or the poor areas. I feel more at home, believe it or not.

Boys, I have been rich and I have been poor, and believe me being rich is better.

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.

I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.