Poor Quotes - page 5

A great artist is never poor. (Karen Blixen)
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. View quote
Samuel Johnson
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. View quote
E. M. Forster
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. View quote
Neil Gaiman
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Go, poor devil, get thee gone Why should I hurt thee This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. View quote
Sholem Aleichem
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. View quote
Joan Rivers
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. View quote
Emma Lazarus
If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. View quote
John Harsanyi
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. View quote
Imelda Marcos
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose. View quote
Imelda Marcos
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer... and there are flying cars. View quote
Joss Whedon
Who, being loved, is poor? View quote
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The poor and the middle class work for money.” "The rich have money work for them. (Robert Kiyosaki)
I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan. View quote
Huey Long
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. View quote
Thomas Gray
Hope is the poor man's bread. View quote
George Herbert
Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music! View quote
Olaf Stapledon