Poor Quotes · Page 48

“Love is currency, none who possess it can ever be truly poor.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.

— Steve Hanke

“Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

— Bill Mollison

Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

— J. C. Ryle

The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

— Pope Paul VI

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

— Phaedrus

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

— Hosur Narasimhaiah

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a…

— Joseph Addison

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there…

— Hesiod

We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a…

— Paul Henderson

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the…

— Bill Gates

The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as…

— Emil M. Cioran

We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning.…

— Sister Souljah

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose;…

— Piero Gheddo

But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is…

— Jack Kerouac

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their…

— Henning Mankell

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow…

— Margot Asquith

Economically, we are gain weaker. Millions of Americans have no health insurance - including many poor children. if they do not get…

— Joseph Stiglitz

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once…

— Ernest Hemingway

As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make…

— Noreena Hertz

I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important…

— Thomas Paine

“If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.”

— Bryant McGill

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

— Mr. T

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

— Francoise Sagan

“Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.”

— Bryant McGill

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

— Oscar Wilde

“Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

While a lot of milk chocolate just so happens to be poor quality, milk chocolate itself is not the problem.

— Chris Morocco

Rob the poor, slaughter the weak. Distort the law, perfect deceit.

— Otep

Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

— Edward Young

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

— Mother Teresa

“I spent New Years Day 2023 researching the numerous poor customer reviews at Frontier Airlines.”

— Steven Magee

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

— Esther Duflo

The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.

— Vikrant Parsai

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

— Willie Nelson

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

— Anonymous