Poor Man Quotes

171 Poor Man quotes by 128 unique authors

There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a… — Saint John Chrysostom
There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich… — Adrian Rogers
God is inexhaustible in His gifts to men? Everywhere we see plenty and joy; only the greedy rich lay their hands on and keep in… — John of Kronstadt
There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. — William Shakespeare
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned… — Terence McKenna
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. — Khalil Gibran
Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food.… — Rahul Gandhi
And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become… — Rajneesh
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.'' — Elbert Hubbard
A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king. — Boonaa Mohammed
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man,… — Henry David Thoreau
A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... frugality makes a poor man rich. — Seneca the Younger
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca the Younger
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock. — Unknown Author
Even a poor man can receive honors. — Sophocles
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he… — Epictetus
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long,… — Epictetus
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor… — Lord Acton
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging. — Denis Diderot
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful… — William Booth
The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty. — Elvis Costello
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything. — Bruce Springsteen
Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? — Jethro Tull
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials… — Hugo Black

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