Poor Quotes

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

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.

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.

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.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.