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The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one. — Benjamin Franklin

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death. — William Shakespeare

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. — Octavio Paz

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. — William Shakespeare

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

Beggars market their incapacity. — Mason Cooley

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it. — Georges Bernanos

We serve the world as one beggar telling other beggars where we found bread. — Chuck Collins

Backpackers can pack much more meows than baggers. Beggars never feed stray cats as street cats are self-sustaining. — Will Advise

...beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep. — Joseph Gies

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ. — Matthew Henry

Those who despise this demand of life end up becoming beggars and slaves through life. — Sunday Adelaja

You can't make cheese from rats ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars. — Arthur M. Jolly

sympathetic to some of the truly needy beggars, he wished these — Jonathan Sturak

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Without hope of reward
Provide help to others.
Bear suffering alone,
And share your pleasures with beggars. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

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

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Before I saw your talk, I always thought of street performers as beggars. — Amanda Palmer

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. — Horace

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty. — Swami Vivekananda

A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask. — Paul Washer

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. — Homer

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing. — Garth Nix

Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. — Robert Jordan

If wishes were horses," she murmured, "beggars would ride. — Jennifer Haymore

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. — William Shakespeare

The quiet mind is richer than a crown ... Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. — Robert Greene

The night was a rush of steaming pasta, wet irises, Italian leathers, swaddled beggars, skulking boys, sulking girls, garbage piles, pretzel vendors. — Francesca Lia Block

Beggars ask for more... riches ask for more... Turn your head.. people asks for more and more.. Time crawls but Asking for More is never-ending!! — DEB

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars? — Jeffrey R. Holland

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. — Mason Cooley

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls. — Lindsey Davis

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy! — Brennan Manning

Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs. — Georges Bidault

Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy! — Orson Scott Card

There was no boss-class, no menial-class, no beggars, no prostitutes, no lawyers, no priests, no boot-licking, no cap-touching. — George Orwell

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home. — Stijn Streuvels

Beggars should be no choosers. — John Heywood

I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul. — Neil Morrissey

Beggars cannot be choosers. — Zadie Smith

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas. — Mason Cooley

He considered himself in a class above the ordinary run of beggars, who, he said, were an abject lot, without even the decency to be ungrateful. He — George Orwell

Beggars can't be choosers — James Bowen

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls. — R. Scott Bakker

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health. — Arthur Schopenhauer

We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars. — M.F. Moonzajer

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts. — Hank Williams Jr.

They are but beggars that can count their worth. — William Shakespeare

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give. — Robert G. Ingersoll

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers. — Nicole Kidman

Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. — William Shakespeare

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. — W. H. Auden

Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night. — Matsime Simon Mohapi

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

If wishes were stories, beggars would read ... — Randall Jarrell

Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line. — Valerie Martin

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before. — Franz Grillparzer

Oh, the spectacles - I have to wear them when I go abroad, I have such kind eyes you see, beggars and things cluster round and annoy me. — Nancy Mitford

The mighty are beggars, child. They rattle silver cups by the roadside, pleading for love. — Robert V.S. Redick

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. — James Shikwati

We live by action - by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want - whether geniuses or beggars - are related by impotence. — Fernando Pessoa

If wishes could be fishes, even beggars would eat. — Lili St. Crow

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful. — Bertrand Russell

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. — Dominick Dunne

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars. — Fidel Castro

A slightly perverted adventure of questionable consent, but beggars like me couldn't be choosers. — Skye Warren

If wishes were fishes, even beggars would eat — Lili St. Crow

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials. — Charles Caleb Colton

The crow is the raven's poor cousin. They are both beggars in black, hated and misunderstood. — George R R Martin

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It turns out we were some people
which has been chosen by God to be happy in a different way
# beggars — Ys Sroyer

All of us are beggars here. — William James

Beggars inspired me with mingled feelings of love and fear. I knew that I ought to be kind to them, for they might not be what they seemed. — Elie Wiesel

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing. — William Hazlitt

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby. — Mason Cooley

We are all beggars, each in his own way. — Mark Twain

rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work. — Booker T. Washington

And love is love, in beggars and in kings. — Edward Dyer

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth. — Zelda Fitzgerald

If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride. — Kristin Hannah