Poor Quotes · Page 42

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

— Benjamin Franklin

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

— Oscar Wilde

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

— William Shakespeare

The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

— Calvin Miller

“When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.”

— Henry Miller

“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.”

— Sunday Adelaja

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

— George Herbert

I've had this sensibility since I was a child. If there was a black boy in the school, I was the friend.…

— Riccardo Tisci

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

— Ronald Reagan

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for…

— William Cowper

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

— Muhammad Yunus

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these…

— Plato

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70…

— Trent Dilfer

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white…

— Rita Mae Brown

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich…

— Aravind Adiga

We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking…

— Marjane Satrapi

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the…

— Jim Yong Kim

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming... and when God gets angry you´ve…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use…

— Wolfgang Ostwald

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also…

— Howard Zinn

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out…

— Teju Cole

Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful,…

— Karl Hess

“My mom often said "We're not poor, we just don't have much money.”

— Les Cochran

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

— Madonna Ciccone

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

— Stephen Chow

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

— Anonymous

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

— Matt Kemp

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

— Mason Cooley

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

— Edward Irving

Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .

— Pio of Pietrelcina

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

— Royal Robbins

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

— Lester Thurow

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

— William Shakespeare

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

— Romano Prodi

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe