"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor." — Jean de La Fontaine

More Beggar Quotes

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• Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him… — David Jeremiah
• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again… — Swami Vivekananda
• There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus
• Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have… — John G. Lake
• Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And… — William Shakespeare
• Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge,… — Mason Cooley
• The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our… — Mary McCarthy
• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He… — Thomas Adams
• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which… — Andre Gide
• Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the… — Anzia Yezierska
• Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you… — Swami Vivekananda

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