Beggar Quotes

235 Beggar quotes by 166 unique authors

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar. — Rajneesh
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. — William Shakespeare
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Unknown Author
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread. — Daniel Thambyrajah Niles
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This… — Max Weber
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to… — Samuel Johnson
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. — Antonin Artaud
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as… — Walter Benjamin
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms… — Ben Hecht
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it. — Georges Bernanos
I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like a piano, and… — Tom Hiddleston
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers… — Nick Harkaway
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. — Rajneesh
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty… — Mohsin Hamid
Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it. — Thomas Chalmers
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. — Octavio Paz
A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does… — Paul Washer
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors. — Augustus Toplady
I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of… — M.F.K. Fisher
Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult… — R C Sproul
You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart… — Frida Kahlo
Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince… — Robert Browning

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