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I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land. — R.L. Bartram

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. — Rajneesh

A hairy beggar kneeling by a puddle of vomit turns out to be a dog. — David Mitchell

Modesty is of no use to a beggar. — Homer

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar. — Swami Vivekananda

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. — Morris L. Ernst

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. — Walter Raleigh

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. — Rudyard Kipling

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line. — Charles Bukowski

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. — Rajneesh

A Beggar Just Begs,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 6, 2016 — Petra Hermans

The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success. — Robert Green Ingersoll

You are the honoured guest,
Do not weep like a beggar
For pieces of the world. — Rumi

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. — William Shakespeare

Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink. — R. Scott Bakker

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus

Is an artist much more than a beggar? — Clara Schumann

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. — Elizabeth I

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered. — William Shakespeare

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys) — George R R Martin

Better a beggar than a thief. — George R R Martin

Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars. — James Shikwati

Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest. — Witold Gombrowicz

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him;
Not us'rers make more beggars where they live
Than charitable men that use to give. — John Heywood

Why remain polite but powerless, in love but a beggar? — Hilary Thayer Hamann

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. — Lord Byron

The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool. — Georgia Douglas Johnson

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? — Jethro Tull

He who begs timidly courts a refusal. — Seneca The Younger

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy. — Brennan Manning

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar. — Homer

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them
— D.H. Lawrence

A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men. — George R R Martin

Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar! — Ted Anthony Roberts

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master. — Sol Luckman

We do not receive a life that is short, but rather we make it so; we are not beggar in it, but spendthrifts. — Seneca.

What you powerfully hold
In your thought-world
Will make you either
A street beggar
Or a great king. — Sri Chinmoy

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he ... — Emily Dickinson

To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings. — Sidney Sheldon

I just told you that I used to be a thief, a beggar, and a whore. Is it really fair for you to cry foul over my question? - Bones — Jeaniene Frost

The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.
— Michael Kruger

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar. — Rajneesh

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

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage. — William Gurnall

Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice. — George R R Martin

I am naked and a beggar and an atom in the vortex of humanity. — Fjodor Dostojevski

As one person put it, passing on the good news is simply a matter of one beggar telling another where to find bread. That — Iain M. Duguid

A righteous beggar is better than a proud king. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. — William Shakespeare

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. — Tim Sanders

A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight — Anonymous

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. — Rudyard Kipling

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower. — Vivek Wadhwa

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. Doc — Tavis Smiley

Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes — James Hogg

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging. — Oscar Wilde

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. — Peire Cardenal

I'll be any man you want. A king or a beggar or a farmer or a killer. But I'll never be the man who can let you walk away. — Kit Rocha

I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. — Rudyard Kipling

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. — Jim Carrey

The life of an unhappy rich person is poorer than a happy beggar. — Debasish Mridha

He was lanky, wiry as an apostrophe mark, and dressed in clothes that appeared to have come from a beggar's bin. — Kristin Hannah

Lila Bard might have been a thief but she wasn't a beggar. And — V.E Schwab

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. — Antonin Artaud

Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser. — George R R Martin

A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar. — L. S. Lowry

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. — Juvenal

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy — Benjamin Franklin

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket. — Charles Lamb

It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He — Frank Herbert

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in. — George Saunders

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar. — Rutherford B. Hayes

A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity. — James Russell Lowell

I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by. — William Butler Yeats

This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly. — Bridget Asher

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. — Robert Greene

Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar. — Guru Gobind Singh

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity. — Dalai Lama

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men. — Corrie Ten Boom

A piece of bread,
some fresh water,
the shadow of a tree and your eyes, my beloved.
No sultan is happier than me,
no beggar more sad. — Omar Khayyam

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?' — Mo Ibrahim

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? — Thomas Otway

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

Broadway will give any beggar a cup of coffee and a sandwich, but it demands persistence of those who go after the big stakes. — Napoleon Hill

A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion. — Donald Miller

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong. — Mason Cooley

My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight. — Ursula K. Le Guin

with a scruffy man who looked like a beggar, dressed all in black. — Brandon Sanderson

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem. — T. B. Joshua

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means. — Martin Farquhar Tupper