He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

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

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

Beggars fear no rebellion

— Proverb

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

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

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

— Guru Nanak

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

— Adam Smith

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative…

— Walter Benjamin

I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but…

— William Shakespeare

A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet…

— James Russell Lowell

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

— William Cranch Bond

“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe