The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

“There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. (Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare.)”

— Sarah Stuart

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

There's beggary in love that can be reckoned

— William Shakespeare

“Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].”

— Dada Bhagwan

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should…

— William Shakespeare

Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

— John Milton

“The one whose every kind of beggary is gone is given all the rules in his hands. But beggary does not go away, does…

— Dada Bhagwan

But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom,…

— David Hume

“poverty is not a vice, that’s a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that’s even truer.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue…

— William Shakespeare

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

— Seneca the Younger

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by…

— Robert Louis Stevenson