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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
— Adam Smith
A hairy beggar kneeling by a puddle of vomit turns out to be a dog.
— David Mitchell
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
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
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
— Jacoby Shaddix
If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Beggars market their incapacity.
— Mason Cooley
Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
— Thomas Chalmers
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
— Rajneesh
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
A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
— William Shakespeare
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
— Karl Kraus
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
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
— Charles Lamb
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
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.
— Guru Nanak
The bashful beggar has an empty purse.
— William Cranch Bond
Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.
— Witold Gombrowicz
Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis
— Christopher Paolini
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
— Augustus Toplady
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
-Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick.
— Irvine Welsh
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
A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
— Brennan Manning
We are all beggars, each in his own way.
— Mark Twain
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
— William Shakespeare
Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.
— Guru Gobind Singh
True that life is given,And received. But truer still:
The single-act of giving
Makes the offerer the beggar, too - — Edith L. Tiempo
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
— William Shakespeare
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
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
— William Hazlitt
A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
— Donald Miller
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
When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
— William Shakespeare
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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
BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by. — William Butler Yeats
From the kingTo the beggar, by gradation, all are servants;
And you must grant, the slavery is less
To study to please one, than many. — Philip Massinger
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?
— Thomas Otway
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
As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.
— Walter Benjamin
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
Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.
— Vivek Wadhwa
Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.
— George R R Martin
A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
— L. S. Lowry
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 coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
— Elizabeth I
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
The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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 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
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
If wishes were stories, beggars would read ...
— Randall Jarrell
Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.
— James Shikwati