Beggar Quotes

235 Beggar quotes by 166 unique authors

Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the… — Unknown Author
Beggars should be no choosers. — John Heywood
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent… — Simone Weil
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over… — Jose Marti
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops… — Steven Rattner
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost… — Carol Vorderman
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars. — Fidel Castro
People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. — Dominick Dunne
Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out… — Mata Amritanandamayi
It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken… — Hank Williams, Jr.
No nation respects a beggar. — Elijah Muhammad
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the… — Margaret Cavendish
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're… — Kiran Desai
Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? — Jethro Tull
How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still… — Pope Francis
I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be… — William Shakespeare
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. — William Shakespeare
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. — Thomas B. Macaulay
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. — Lord Byron
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy — Benjamin Franklin
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake… — James Russell Lowell
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not… — George Orwell
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on… — Emma Goldman
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their… — Duke Ellington

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