The Poor Quotes

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.

Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.

The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

And makes me poor indeed.

Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.

How poor are they that have have not patients.

Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.

The very flowers are sacred to the poor.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.

I'd grown up poor; I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.