The Poor Quotes

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

People say to me. 'What about the rich?' They need Jesus too.' Well, that's fine if you're called to them, but we're called to the poor. The rich can look after themselves.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

A person with a poor mind set is always afraid to take risk.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.