Poor Quotes

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

What's the Matter with the Mill?

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.

Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.

The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

I have the grace of providence to be poor.

It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work.

The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Rich people are poor people with money.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.