Poor Quotes · Page 65

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

— Francis Bacon

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

— Daniel Kahneman

I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.

— Prince Harry

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

— Lewis Goldberg

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

— Gloria Steinem

“Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.”

— Gandhi

We grew up in west London, everyone was poor, and we bought our clothes from charity shops or from Portobello.

— Miquita Oliver

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

— Bob Hope

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the…

— John Keats

He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.

— Nicholas Sparks

Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell…

— Colley Cibber

If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to…

— Wallace D. Wattles

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep…

— Anonymous

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to…

— Gijs de Vries

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I…

— Aldous Huxley

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so…

— Robert Herjavec

She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. " I'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want…

— Cassandra Clare

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you…

— Georges Bernanos

Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations…

— Richard G. Scott

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let…

— Herman Melville

“You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have…

— G.K. Chesterton

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost…

— William Shakespeare

Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich…

— William Plomer

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect…

— Charles Loring Brace

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

— Cornel West

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

— Mother Teresa

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

— Amit Shah

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

— Mark Twain

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

— Saint Augustine

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

— Rodney Dangerfield

If you born POOR, its not your mistake, But If you Die Poor it's your mistake.

— Bill Gates

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

— Giovannino Guareschi

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

— Robert Southey

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

— John Catsimatidis

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

— Theodor Adorno

“Do we ignore the needy to spite the greedy? Or share and defend despite those who pretend?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If you grow up poor, I'm not sure you ever shake that off.

— Ant McPartlin

A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.

— Rudy Giuliani

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

— Alice Childress