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The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork. — Wilson Mizner

The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed. — Maxim Gorky

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does. — Greg Gutfeld

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. — Michael Caine

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. — Rose Wilder Lane

Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling. — Robert Kiyosaki

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word. — Rabindranath Tagore

I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor. — Sterling W. Sill

Where the rich lead,the poor will follow, or try to. — John Steinbeck

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children. — Nicholas Kristof

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. — Honore De Balzac

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth. — Cullen Hightower

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. — Rumi

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform
and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Love produces peace and harmony whereas hate causes distress and disharmony ... So be a lover and not a hater! — Timothy Pina

procrastination in the face of poor performance is a fool's remedy. — Marcus Buckingham

a social deformity perhaps more hideous than the evil rich man: the evil poor. — Suzanne Uber

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests . — Novalis

It is only because of your love, only your love, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them. — Richard J. Foster

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. — Orison Swett Marden

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But — Cherie Priest

In the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief. — Suheir Hammad

What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. — Murray Rothbard

Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person. Admonished the Savior, 'Judge not according to the appearance. — Thomas S. Monson

The irony is that for poor people like us, an education at Notre Dame is both cheaper and finer. We — J.D. Vance

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor. — Sonia Gandhi

O God bid my poor body to arise
On that bright day triumphant through the skies! — Timothy Salter

Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin. — William Shakespeare

The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born. — Auliq Ice

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry? — Alexandra Paul

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed. — A.J. Quinnell

Her unimpeachable dignity was the thing that made her poor in a wild old whorehouse. — Jack Kerouac

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor. — Harry S. Truman

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. — Bill Vaughan

I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor. — Albert Camus

The wealthy and powerful become ever more wealthy and more powerful, while the poor and oppressed grow ever more enslaved. — K. Makansi

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. — Norman Thomas

Even the poor should give something to charity. — Nachman Of Breslov

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. — Ron Paul

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised. — S.J. Rozan

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor. — Kirk Douglas

Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment. — Barry Ritholtz

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor. — Pope Leo XIII

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing. — Edward De Bono

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor. — Vivienne Westwood

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. — Tony Campolo

All POOR wish to become RICH,
BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. — Shaikh Mustafa

I felt terrible. The poor had a right to fuck their way through their bad dreams. Sex and drink, and maybe love, was all they had. — Charles Bukowski

If the kingdom of God belongs to the poor, the bottom dwellers, then rich American Christians are going to have the hardest time finding it. — Jen Hatmaker

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. — Theodor Adorno

As he grew, the other children grew as well - all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig — David Eddings

Go to the poor: you will find God. — St. Vincent De Paul

Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty. — Isabelle Eberhardt

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most. — James Cook

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. — Thomas Malthus

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power. — John Berger

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card. — Mark Twain

Charity is a nice gesture, but it only offers temporary relief. But if he can change the law, the benefits for the poor will last longer. — Aya Ling

For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted" (Ps. 109:16, — Henry Cloud

The poor bloke must have been besotted. Now me, I'm just in love. — Sally Wentworth

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. — Charles Dickens

The Seven Ps': Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance. — Phil Campion

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! — Hosea Ballou

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. — Winston Churchill

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor. — Felix Wantang

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. — Thomas C. Oden

All things pass, but the poor remain. We are the people of the Apokalis. Tomorrow there will be more of us. — Indra Sinha

The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means
Poor Justin! — Sarah Strohmeyer

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind. — Ajahn Chah

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown. — Robin Leach

If others try to blame you for their own negative energy, let it go and forget about it! It's their problem ... not yours! — Timothy Pina

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A thousand pounds for clothes
when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

We had a son, whom we named Bertran. Just the one, though I prayed for more. Loving him made me rich in ways I'd too long been poor. — Julie Berry

I'd made some poor decisions last summer, but I was just thankful I'd ended up on the right path, the path that had brought me right here, with him. — Adriane Leigh

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline. — George Lindsey

The poor fellow had never been cut out to be a villain. — T.H. White

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether. — T. Harv Eker

the brave are merely the stupid who live through their poor decisions. — Brian Fuller

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people. — Rickie Lee Jones

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. — Frank Field

Keep hope alive in your heart & say no to fear. Look forward to tomorrow's sunrise as the winds of change come near! — Timothy Pina

The very flowers are sacred to the poor. — William Wordsworth

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial. — Ron Paul

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. — Frederic Chopin

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making. — Joshua Ferris

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers. — Mahatma Gandhi

Poor people all think they deserve to be rich," he continued. "Rich people live every day with the uneasy knowledge that we do not. — Graham Moore

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. — Edmund Spenser

Do not worry! The Almighty God knows all your need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes