I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and…

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

— Elizabeth I

Being single isnt the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

— Renee Jones

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mothers married friends and think, Why…

— Cherie Lunghi

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

— Charles Bukowski

Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find…

— Harville Hendrix

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

— Cary Grant

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

— Guru Nanak

You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars…

— George Bernard Shaw

Beggars fear no rebellion

— Proverb

Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our…

— Eduardo Galeano

Don't be doubtful to your goals or else you will end up your life as a beggar, keep faith on yourself and you will…

— Athar Azeem

“Why remain polite but powerless, in love but a beggar?”

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

— Mason Cooley

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than…

— Peire Cardenal