Poor Quotes

Rich people are poor people with money.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

... the best way to help the poor is to promote economic growth and job creation

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not be read.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

The world is full of smart, poor people.

The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.

If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.

The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

There was something missing In my foundation Why blame the poor walls?

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?

Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.