Poor Quotes · Page 49

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

— Benjamin Franklin

An ignorant person is poorer than the man who has no money.

— Vikrant Parsai

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

— William Butler Yeats

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

— Henry Walter Bates

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

— Solon

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

— Bill Gates

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

— Lillian Hellman

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

— Walter Annenberg

If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not…

— John Caples

The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know…

— Polly Bergen

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and…

— Ray Dalio

We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a…

— Maverick Carter

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps…

— Phillips Brooks

Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be…

— David Lidington

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers…

— Bryan Stevenson

After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in…

— Sarah Dessen

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game…

— Herman Melville

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best…

— Lindsay Duncan

All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it…

— Anonymous

The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll…

— Rush Limbaugh

How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although…

— John Keats

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he…

— Thomas Jefferson

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married -…

— Elizabeth Taylor

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

— Beatrice Webb

I'm not some patriot. I didn't have some yearning to defend my country or anything. I was poor.

— JPEGMAFIA

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

— Henry Parry Liddon

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

— Ramsey Clark

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

— Ernest Hemingway

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

— Richard G. Wilkinson

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

— Tom Baker

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

— Oscar Wilde

“The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

— Josh Lieb

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.

— Sandra Cisneros

He who laughs and loves is always rich; he who sulks and hates is always poor!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

— Tariq Ramadan

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

— William J. Clinton