Poor Quotes · Page 63

Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing

— Jacquie Phelan

There's nothing worse in television than what I call 'poor man's Jerry Bruckheimer.'

— James Watkins

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

— Ellen Raskin

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.”

— Steven Magee

People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.

— Nancy Reagan

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

— Michael Harrington

“Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.”

— Amit Kalantri

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in…

— Plato

My freshman year, the hate was all directed toward Danny Ferry. And every year, there's some new poor sucker at Duke who…

— Christian Laettner

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things.…

— Rudyard Kipling

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has…

— C. S. Lewis

When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality…

— Russell Brand

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John…

— Mildred D. Taylor

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will…

— Nick Hanauer

I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5…

— Raj Patel

By contrast, poll taxes were very effective in excluding blacks, as well as impacting many poor whites; in legal parlance, they were…

— David B. Rivkin

I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am -…

— Jesse Jackson

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of…

— Queen Victoria

Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up…

— Heber J. Grant

You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes…

— Rajneesh

“A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.”

— Italo Calvino

If you give the poor wool today, God will give you a sheep tomorrow.

— Vikrant Parsai

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“Even if you are poor, you can still receive the inheritances from the King!”

— Jayce O'Neal

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

— Friedrich Schiller

“Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We didn't know we were poor because that's how everyone around us lived.

— Eric Adams

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

— Glen Cook

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

— Augusta Jane Evans

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

— Lightnin' Hopkins

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.”

— Graham Greene

When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

— Ma Jian

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe