Being Poor Quotes
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Being Poor Quotes & Sayings
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
— Benjamin Franklin
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
— Jane Austen
If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
— Charles Dickens
The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.
— Greg Gutfeld
There's no future in being poor.
— Robert Shaw
You can't help the poor by being one of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
Being poor is a frame of mind.
— Mike Todd
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
— William Hazlitt
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
— Patrick Stewart
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
— Willem De Kooning
Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.
— Kathy Calvin
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
— Cornel West
You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same.
— C.M. Hayden
I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.
— Jerzy Kosinski
You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'
— Peter Kropotkin
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
— Lionel Trilling
When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet.
— Brennan Manning
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
— Margaret Heffernan
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
— John Thaw
She had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.
— Anna Quindlen
People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
— Douglas Coupland
Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.
— Ric Edelman
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight") — Cornell Woolrich
After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.
— David Petraeus
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
— G.K. Chesterton
One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California ... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.
— Diane Mott Davidson
Being an altruist I have an urge in mylife to help poor's but im not Bill Gates
— Bilal Bashir Magry
It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
— Langston Hughes
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I lay them at your feet. Tread lightly, for you tread on my dreams.
— John Keats
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The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
— Daniel O'Connell
Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil
— Novala Takemoto
Being poor is only romantic in books.
— Sidney Sheldon
I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.
— Eileen Myles
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
— Andrew Young
I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.
— Ali Liebegott
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
— Jerome K. Jerome
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
— Mike Todd
Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.
— Alphonso Jackson
He really needed to stop being so hot while his hands were on me.
— Veronica Blade
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
— Dick Gregory
Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
— Caitlin Moran
Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted
— Omali Yeshitela
When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
— Shane Claiborne
In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor.
— Orhan Pamuk
You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
— Al Koran
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
— Josh Billings
I've never had to do anything I didn't believe in. Sometimes that meant being poor and waitressing a while longer, but I've always stuck with it.
— Linda Kozlowski
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
— Warren Farrell
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
— Jules Renard
When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.
— Elliott Chaze
His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.
— Loretta Chase
You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good
— Jackie Ballard
There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.
— Chris Oyakhilome
Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.
— William Shakespeare
Poor practices are blunting email marketing's effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome.
— Chad White
I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.
— Belinda Alexandra
Who, being love, is poor? Oscar Wilde
— Vikki Wakefield
Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.
— Bette Lee Crosby
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.
— Townes Van Zandt
Who, being loved, is poor?
— Oscar Wilde
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
— Christian Nestell Bovee
