Poor Quotes · Page 38

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

— Havelock Ellis

I'm only a poor corrupt official.

— Claude Rains

We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.

— Shiv Nadar

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

— Francis Bacon

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

— Sophie Tucker

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

— William Shakespeare

“It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world.”

— Louis L'Amour

“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.”

— Steven Magee

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.

— Mother Teresa

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

— Raoul Vaneigem

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

— Beth Ditto

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

— Ernest Rutherford

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets

— Anonymous

Just because you dont deserve punishment for your thoughts doesnt mean you have to think only poor ones.

— Vikrant Parsai

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were…

— Michel Faber

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world.…

— Tony Campolo

“Every time I look at my wallet; I don’t care how much money is there, I just want to know, does it…

— M.F. Moonzajer

There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I…

— Jehane Noujaim

“Only now did he realize how poor a substitute his hand had been for a real woman with all of her smells…

— Cari Quinn

“So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents,…

— Sherman Alexie

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the…

— Pope Francis

People say to me all the time that I threw some money into some guy's coffee cup [by accident, thinking they were…

— Nicole Holofcener

Our women are not incredible because they have managed to avoid the difficulties of life—quite the opposite. They are incredible because of…

— Quentin L. Cook

You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous,…

— Kofi Annan

Give me a few minutes.” “You have time.” He sat in the grass. “Are you just going to sit there and watch…

— Ilona Andrews

“One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring…

— Corrie Ten Boom

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all…

— Plutarch

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very…

— Donald Barthelme

We love to think this fundamentalism and terrorism is all about poverty, and, of course, it has a connection. You can see…

— Robert Fisk

Bloated!" he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the…

— Rick Riordan

“It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.”

— John Connolly

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

— William Shakespeare

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

— Benjamin Tucker

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

— Gerrit Smith

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

— C. S. Lewis

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

— Arthur Helps

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

— Vinoba Bhave

I have poor thought to become rich, but I have rich thought not to become poor.

— Voeun Tivea

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

— Marilynne Robinson