The Poor Quotes

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

I come from a poor family.

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.

If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in . He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper.