Poor Quotes
What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...
A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.
Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .
When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.
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.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.
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.
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.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.
I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.
When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.