Poor Men Quotes

To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

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

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.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.

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!

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Bells, the poor man's only music.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

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

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

On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a "poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV."

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.