Poor Quotes - page 7

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor. (Victor Hugo)
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. View quote
Victor Hugo
Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me. View quote
Isaac Watts
So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain. View quote
Isaac Watts
The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them. View quote
Murray Leinster
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. View quote
Lalu Prasad Yadav
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. View quote
Horace
To the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. View quote
William Shakespeare
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. View quote
Toni Morrison
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. (Mark Twain)
Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. View quote
William Feather
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race I love the languid patience of thy face. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. View quote
Andrew Johnson
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. View quote
Karl Marx
The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask without it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. (John F. Kennedy)
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. View quote
Naomi Klein