Poor Quotes

5043 Poor quotes by 2780 unique authors

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone… — Rita Mae Brown
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is… — Margaret Junkin Preston
The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love… — E. Nesbit
I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for… — Dr. Seuss
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta. For all her… — Jack Handey
The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old… — Jack Handey
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and… — William Shakespeare
Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations. — Malcolm Forbes
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich. — Seneca the Younger
Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. — Solomon
The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor. — Dalai Lama
We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing… — Michael Jordan
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and… — Theodore Parker
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Saint John Chrysostom
Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood… — Eva Burrows
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating — Jean Anouilh
The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them — Lang Hancock
Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor — Marcus Aurelius
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty — Oscar Wilde
And makes me poor indeed. — William Shakespeare
Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor — William Shakespeare
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks — William Shakespeare
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down,… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of… — Lord Acton

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