Poor Quotes - page 6

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa Baa Baa We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa Yah Bah. (Rudyard Kipling)
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. View quote
Grover Cleveland
History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless. View quote
Cesar Chavez
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. View quote
Alexander Smith
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. View quote
Jane Austen
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Poor man. Poor mankind. View quote
William Faulkner
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. View quote
John Steinbeck
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. View quote
John Steinbeck
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are? (Joan Crawford)
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. View quote
Edward de Bono
Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we. View quote
William Blake
God appears, and God is Light,To those poor souls who dwell in Night,But does a human form displayTo those who dwell in realms of day. View quote
William Blake
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. View quote
Plutarch
I was so poor growing up - if I wasn't a boy - I'd have had nothing to play with. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. View quote
Rose Wilder Lane
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world - all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. View quote
Muhammad Yunus
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. View quote
Tom Robbins
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. View quote
Euripides
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. View quote
Herman Melville
The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. View quote
George Mason