Poor Quotes

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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. — William Temple
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational… — Mark Twain
Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with… — Edmund Burke
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures… — Aristotle
What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way… — Clarence Jordan
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them. — Mother Teresa
Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor. — Fausto Cercignani
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop… — Emma Goldman
A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the… — Thomas Dreier
There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to… — Emma Thompson
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger
A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree… — Alexander MacLaren
There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. — James Martineau
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead… — Rajneesh
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in… — Dorothy Day
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each. — Christopher Rice
I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with. — Rodney Dangerfield
There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness… — Rajneesh

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