Quotation Explorer - 'Poor'

The poor will provide you what they don't have and what you need while the rich will give you what they have and what you want. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan
Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror. - C. JoyBell C.
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. - George F. Kennan
It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative. - Jacob Lief
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. - Dorothy Day
Poor people are those who do not have Dreams rather do not have Money… - Jagabandhu Jena
If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool. - Amit Kalantri
I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face. - Nema Al-Araby
You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have. - Debasish Mridha
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another. - Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. - Unknown
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. - George Bernard Shaw
You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. - Tupac Shakur
In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do? - Catherynne M. Valente
Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge and freedome will succeed even at there past. - Hamzat haruna Ribah
A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket. - Debasish Mridha
A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. - Andrea Dworkin
But it was not the poor who ate the zoo animals in Paris. - Ceridwen Dovey
Hungry people are always thinking about food; poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams! - Stephen Richards
The game of life is not much in holding a good hand, as in playing a poor hand well.
The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength. - Charles B. Handy
You don't need great faith to move mountains, you only need to use the poor faith you say you have. - Neil Velez
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Camara
O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store. - William Shakespeare
You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor. - Sharon Shinn
Leadership or being a leader is not measured on our power, rich or poor, the age and status in life. It is about the willingness to be able to help and inspire others. - Kiarra Neri
When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility. - Auliq Ice
The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all. - Roberto Bolaño
Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results. - Franz Kafka
Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor. - Ramsey Clark
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. - William Feather
Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. - James Baldwin
To learn why a country or society is developed or poor, don’t study their financial condition but do a psychoanalysis of them. Most often, the development of a country or society depends on thoughts and ideas and not on their financial condition. - Debasish Mridha
No more apologies! So we're poor! All right, we're poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people Shouldn't have to apologize for being poor. The question in America should be, 'Is this guy a good citizen? Is he honest? Does he pull his own weight? - Kurt Vonnegut
Everything has an advantage and disadvantage but, choose an option that will bring you back to the track. Even if you see a poor man on the street choose an option that will left you up, but don't just choose, apply action. - Ben Bereng
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. - Andrew Jackson
We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's better to be poor but rich in love than rich but poor in love. - Debasish Mridha
What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,That rubbing the poor itch of your opinionMake yourselves scabs? - William Shakespeare
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves. - Frances Moore Lappé
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor. - William Shakespeare
Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka... - Stephen King
There's only one thing worse than being sick...and that's being sick and poor. - Lou Silluzio
Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'? - Marti Noxon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations. - Alan Moore
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace. - Max Lucado
Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth, but poor validity. - William Shakespeare
Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy. - Amit Kalantri
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. - Paul Farmer
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires. - Mark Twain
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoléon Bonaparte
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.
Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision. - Debasish Mridha
I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty. - Gugu Mona
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. - Dorothy Day
Look too on this poor planet of ours,Torn by the storms of mysterious powers,Evil contending with good from its birth,Wrenching in battle the heartstrings of earth,—Ah! what infinities circle us here,Strangeness and wonderment swathing the sphere! - Martin Farquhar Tupper
The poor will will provide you with what they don't have and what you need. The rich will give you what they have and what you want. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan
It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. - Horace
Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people. - Nilesh (Neil) jain
Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice. - Kim Stanley Robinson
The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask? - Anthony Liccione
Our Beasts and our Thieves and our ChattelsHave weight for good or for ill;But the Poor are only His image,His presence, His word, His will; -And so Lazarus lies at our doorstepAnd Dives neglects him still. - Adelaide Anne Procter
We are all poor in the face of God's majesty. Not all of us realise it. - Radhe Maa
A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot. - German Proverb
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? - William Shakespeare
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself-and how little I deserve it. - W. S. Gilbert
Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory. - Théophile Gautier
Hope is the poor man's bread. - George Herbert
The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Pay attention… How a person handles poor cell service, traffic, and spotty wifi is a good indicator of how they’ll behave during relationship challenges. - Steve Maraboli
I would love to become a poor writer as per my choice then a billionaire businessman as per them... - shivangi lavaniya
We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;For all such vain wishes in him were preventedBy a fortunate habit of being contented. - Jane Taylor
Juice is a poor man’s dessert. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time. - Auliq Ice
. . . anyone who wants to elaborate relevant liberation theology must be prepared to go into the 'examination hall' of the poor. Only after sitting on the benches of he humble will he or she be entitled to enter a school of 'higher learning. - Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff
Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen. - Harry Truman
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till out political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich, - a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. - Stephen Johnson Field
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare
Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing. - Karen Blixen
Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I say, "You a kind girl," and she nod, repeat it back to me. But before I can do another one, she get up and chase that poor dog around the yard and laugh and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day? - Kathyrn Stockett
We are rich in hearts, but poor with love. - Anthony Liccione
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. - Yiddish Proverb
It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. - Ludwig von Mises
Leadership or being a leader is not measured on our power, rich or poor, the and status in life. It is about the willingness to be able to help and inspire others. - Kiarra Neri
Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time - Robert Jordan
When you feel life is getting too cruel and insensitive…Look for a newspaper or poor streets…You will automatically gain perspective and start loving your Life.~Kritika Sharma - Kritika Sharma
Live free , die young or stay weak , die poor . - Ankit Samrat
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. - Oscar Wilde
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
Neither every rich person is noble nor miser.Neither every poor person is humble nor wicked. - Salsabeel
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money. - Pablo Picasso
The rich spend their life living; the poor spend their life making a living. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. - Alfred Hitchcock
Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation. - Michael Hogan
Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor. - Francis de Sales
He had so much money that he could afford to look poor. - Edgar Wallace
When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.* - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The average man's judgement is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have. - Stephen Richards
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. - G.K. Chesterton
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. - Chris Hedges
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich. - John Green
Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history. - L.B. Taylor Jr.
Who says that money don't matter?If you are Rich all the world will know about you, if you are poor no one give a crap about what it's happening to you!"Life It's Short, enjoy this moment. - Ebelsain Villegas
Life is a banquet, and most poor bastards are starving to death.
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. - Vandana Shiva
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Elizabeth I
If we lose all of our wealth and are only left with love then, indeed, we shall never be poor. - Stephen Richards
By giving away we feel rich; by hoarding we feel poor. - Debasish Mridha
The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love. - Anthony Liccione
People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice. - Michael Bassey Johnson
If you achieve good results using a poor method, isn't that a much greater achievement than starting from better methods. - Gen Urobuchi 虚淵 玄
the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend. - George Gordon Byron
You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can't stay rich if you are poor minded. - Rafaa Khiari
No matter how rich or poor you are, all life will come to a sudden halt to travel into two types of destinations; Heaven and Hell. - Callum Illman
Greedy people are poor in the mind. - Yusuf Musa
Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. - John Donne
A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality. - Dennis Adonis
When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life. - Winston S. Churchill
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. - John F. Kennedy
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A clear conscience is due to a poor memory. - R.J. Newman
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor. - The Talmud
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. - Diogenes the Cynic
In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have such poor vision I can date anybody. - Garry Shandling
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the edges of your field or pick the fallen fruit. Leave these for the poor and the stranger. - Leviticus 19:10
My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers. - Joy Hakim
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Martin Luther King Jr.
...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own. - Harper Lee
Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this. - Friedrich Engels
People are not poor because they do not have money; they are poor because they do not have knowledge. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Religion without humanity is poor human stuff. - Sojourner Truth
A poor original is better than a good imitation. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His. - James C. Dobson
Religion is the opium of the poor - Ernest Hemingway
Respect everybody you meet either Rich or Poor | Cute or Ugly | Locally or Internationally | Famous or Infamous.. afterall we're all sand - Goals Rider
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. - Laurence J. Peter
Unnecessary spending makes another man rich and another man poor. - Cyc Jouzy
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. - Herbert N. Casson
Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making the poor choice that we didn't see as a poor choice? - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you. - J.C. Ryle
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great! - Mehmet Murat ildan
True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying. - Abhijit Naskar
No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world. - Alfred Tennyson
AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. - Ambrose Bierce
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. - Jalaluddin Rumi
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. - Gabriel García Márquez
Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology". - Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil
(Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. - MAD Magazine
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. - Zig Ziglar
It's only the poor who can't get away with murder. - Marty Rubin
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor (Proverbs 22:9). - Anonymous
Poor people are those who does not have Dreams rather does not Money... - J Jena
All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. - shaikh mustafa
To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility. - William Cobbett
Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States.
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
I'd rather be rich and healthy than poor and sick. - kevin mcpherson eckhoff
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. - Red Red Rover
The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country. - Steven Magee
There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace... - Barbara Woodall
Books appear to be frail and disposable, but they are sacred. You can burn the paper, but the stories live on. In the same way, a poor man or woman is not a burden on society, they are those who survive despite the odds—and when they don’t, they still represent those who tried. - Mohammad Zayer
One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching. - A.T. Robertson
These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim. - Anthony Liccione
The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin? - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that. - Rohan Candappa
It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. - Manasa Rao Saarloos
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. - George Santayana
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. - Oscar Levant
A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich - William Shakespeare
When I was earning, saving, and spending, I felt poor. When I started to give away some of my earning for good purposes, abundance filled my heart. - Debasish Mridha
The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love. - Dillon Burroughs
When a rich man's dog died, everyone commiserated. When a poor man lost his mother, no one noticed.
Let your work speak for itself:If poor, it will remain silent.If average, it will whisper.If good, it will talk.If great, it will shout.If genius, it will sing. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] - John F. Kennedy
They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill. - Anthony Liccione
No man is poor who has a Godly mother. - Abraham Lincoln
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. - William Zinsser
A species to consider the rich soil to be poor than the refined Gold, Humans - Goitsemang Mvula
Sister? Jessie Kay scowled. Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way. - Gena Showalter
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor - Herman Melville
No matter how rich or poor you are, all life will come to an halt with two types of destinations; Heaven and Hell. - Callum Illman
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. - William Faulkner
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. - George Bernard Shaw
The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs! - Dew Platt
Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! - Dodie Smith
A faint hearted man will always be poor - Bangambiki Habyarimana
The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane [sic], seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails. - Christopher Marshall
Mad and sad is a good mix for poor decisions. - Hart of Dixie
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. - E.M. Forster
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. - Unknown
The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them. - Louis Guanella
And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers. - Walter Scott
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. - William Henry Harrison
He who desires is always poor. - Claudianus
Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. - William Shakespeare
Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. - The Holy Bible
Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked. - Geraldine Harris
Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are poor indeed if we are only sane. - D.W. Winnicott
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. - Jean-Paul Sartre
The money is the only source of smile for the poor. - Tanmaya Guru
Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
So, Slade, the swearing, the poor english and everything else is just a facade. You're really quite a deep and intelligent man, aren't you? - Dianne Harman Coyote in Provence
Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer. - Santosh Kalwar
The walls are the publishers of the poor. - Eduardo Galeano
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion.
Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names. - Craig Greenfield
I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em. - Will Rogers
Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world. - Saurabh Sharma
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. - Juvenal
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic. - John Steinbeck
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. - Jeffrey D. Sachs
It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor. - Paul David Tripp
You can rob from the poor to give to the rich. It's legal. - Marty Rubin
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor. - Mother Teresa
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare
Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality. - M.F. Moonzajer
Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting. - Aristotle
The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request. - Michael Bassey Johnson
He who despises a poor man’s wisdom has turned away great riches. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. - David M. Friedman
Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich and poor. There can be no special cases because every man at the front is a special case to someone. - Julian Fellowes
When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. - Henry Miller
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. - Jean-Paul Sartre
The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold. - Basava
Just because we’ve made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now. - Toni Sorenson
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. - Willem de Kooning
You can NEVER be poor by giving and showing love to others. - Kemi Sogunle
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents. - Salman Rushdie
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. - Colette
You can never fill your life with prosperity if you walk with a poor person’s mentality. - Debasish Mridha
Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat's out into what's in. - Walter de la Mare
Maria, it sounds like he was insane. Rational people don't intentionally addict people. I feel sorry for those poor people who were unsuspecting victims. - Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote
Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist. - Gary Hopkins
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
Outside show is a poor substitution for inner worth. - Aesop
Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor. - Charles Barkley
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes. - Randy Cohen
There's many ways to be wealthy, and there's many wealthy people that are very poor. Success is not about money, it's happiness, inner peace, and loving yourself. Happiness and inner peace can come from your faith in God, and loving yourself is part of His plan. - Ron Baratono
As I string, a swift rhythm is played out with my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many of the poor workers, the meter and rhythm of stringing tobacco is the only poetry they’ve ever known. - Brenda Sutton Rose
Pain does not differentiate between rich and poor or Christian and Buddhist. It brings the same feelings to everyone. - Debasish Mridha
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. - Dorothy Parker
The poor lack much, the greedy everything. - Publilius Syrus
i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry - Megan Boyle
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. - Martin Luther King Jr.
You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you! - Deyth Banger
We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies. - William Shakespeare
I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues allow them a language as lousy as their life - William H. Gass
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. - Edmund Spenser
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally. - Lawana Blackwell
Fortune, that arrant whore, ne'er turns the key to the poor. - William Shakespeare
An honorable man has a heart for the poor and vulnerable in our society. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve. - Felix Wantang
Rich people is people who only cares for themselves, and their money but, poor people doesn't care how much money they have because they have a big heart - Emanuelle Rivet
Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will. - Debasish Mridha
You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?''No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.'She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said.'I am.''Oh, you poor thing,' she said, putting her arm around me, 'what on earth are you going to do? - Sally Morgan
Katie shook her head in dismay. I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.No, Katie, the countess said in a clear voice. The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in "Titanic Rhapsody - Jina Bacarr
Most people which died poor or rich or other types of people knew something they written it and in the near future when they revive they will somehow reach to this knowledge and will start looking from this view... - Deyth Banger
I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost. - Civil War general George McClelland, quoted in Surgeon in Blue
Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.
No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money. - Vironika Tugaleva
The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The onion is the truffle of the poor. - Robert J. Courtine
I may not have money, but I am not poor. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality... for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor. - Adam Smith
Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so. - Charles Dickens
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion. - Khushwant Singh
When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?
There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor - Nelson Mandela
Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The poor want to be rich, the rich want to be God. - Marty Rubin
Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are. - Mahatma Gandhi
I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized. - Rafael Sabatini
To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost. - S. Fitts
Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her, and he said, "Run away, you poor child. - Wilhelm Grimm
Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. - Leonardo da Vinci
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. - G. K. Chesterton
For the poor always ye have with you. - Bible
I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation. - Robert E. Lee
DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep. - Ambrose Bierce
In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions. - Daniel Cohen
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. - Alexander Smith
Poor parents tend to follow[...] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth". - Malcolm Gladwell
Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception. - Debasish Mridha
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself. - T. Casey Brennan
God has always been hard on the poor. - Jean-Paul Marat
Only poor people know the true meanings to feelings. - - Jessiie Mahadeo
If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love. - Kieron Gillen
Lord help my poor soul. - Edgar Allan Poe
When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs. - Benvenuto Cellini
You will not be poor for giving away love. But you will be a poor soul if you don't give away love. - Debasish Mridha
O love! Poor love! How did you pierce my heart? How did touch my soul?How did you win my mind?The judgmental ever-complaining mind. - Debasish Mridha
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. - Benjamin Franklin
If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living. - Jewish Proverb
Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has. - Rita Gonzalez
No one is poor who has an abundance of love to share with others. - Debasish Mridha
After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed. - Moutasem Algharati
Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money ! - Brahmananda Patra
Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one. - David Cameron
Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same. - Gugu Mona
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. - G. K. Chesterton
O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.
If you choose money over love, you will always be poor. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. - Oscar Wilde
Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated. - Debasish Mridha
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. - Charles Dickens
Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass! - Vera Nazarian
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest. - Napoléon Bonaparte
Perfection is a faux. It’s a mask carved by our own poor esteem to hide who we really are and make others see what really isn’t us. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
You can be clumsy yet clever. You can be classy yet poor. It's not tearing a leaf off a calendar which will make you a better or a worse man but the attitude that you have from dusk till dawn every day. - Indeewara Jayawardane
No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers. - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana