Poor Quotes

Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

The poor should live by alms.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

If you feel that Heavenly Father is not listening to your petitions, ask yourself if you are listening to the cries of the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the afflicted all around you.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.