Poor Quotes · Page 5

I was poor my whole life.

— Blackbear

“I am too poor to bow.”

— Charles de Gaulle

I'm poor, not homeless.

— Simone Elkeles

Poor little whore.

— ChOupiz

I am a poor hater.

— James A. Garfield

My family were really poor.

— Joe Gilgun

I grew up poor.

— Jessica Chastain

Sex - the poor man's polo.

— Clifford Odets

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

“The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.”

— Mike Davis

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

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

— Pablo Picasso

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

— Ellen Glasgow

I don't want to be the underdog. I don't want to be the poor guy, getting kicked around.

— Hector Ruiz

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

— Margaret Oliphant

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

— Rumi

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

— Rose Schneiderman

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

— Abraham Kuyper

“For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he…

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the…

— Isabel Allende

I had aquariums of bullfrogs and mudpuppies. My poor mom had to deal with me incubating chicken eggs in my bedroom.

— Ronan Farrow

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses.…

— Dan Gable

No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A…

— Isabella Bird

“In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.”

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

— Albert Einstein

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in…

— Anonymous

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said…

— Victor Hugo

What the Democrats have done is tell the poor and the middle class that the Democrats are looking out for 'em. Democrats…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,…

— Louis Auchincloss

People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this…

— Michael Mauboussin

In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of…

— Dinesh D'Souza