Poor Quotes

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

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.

Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

The rich will always betray the poor.

Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

Grind the faces of the poor.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

Planning is bringing the future into the present.

I was determined not to remain poor.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'

The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

My Day Clothes are almost worne out...send the poor printer a few gammons, or some meal, some butter, cheese, poultry, etc.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.