The Poor Man Quotes
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He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.
— Tommy Douglas
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The man spoke with an accent, and though I couldn't exactly place it, I knew that he was poor. His voice had snakes in it. And dysentery, and mangoes.
— David Sedaris
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.] — George Herbert
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.] — George Herbert
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
— Jacoby Shaddix
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
— Oriana Fallaci
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.
— William Maxwell
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
— Gerrit Smith
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
— Ridgely Torrence
Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
— Roger Chamberlain
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
— Dean Inge
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
— Henri Rousseau
The man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor.
— Geraldine Brooks
When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
— Diogenes
He said, McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
many rich men and high dignitaries would willingly exchange their palaces for the poor man's cottage if they could only acquire his peace of heart.
— John Of Kronstadt
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
— Jonathan Swift
If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
— Ambrose Of Milan
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
— Denis Diderot
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
— Orison Swett Marden
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
— Thomas Carlyle
Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
— Clement Attlee
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
— Thomas Carlyle
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
— Abraham Lincoln
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
— Abraham Lincoln
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
— Dan Fogelberg
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson
Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
— Jeannette Walls
Street music is always good even it is bad, because actually there is only one melody over there: The melody of life struggle of a poor man!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.
— Royal Robbins
The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he
— Victor Hugo
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.
— Mary Howitt
Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?
— Sheri Fink
Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?
— Tony D'Souza
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
— Josh Billings
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
— Robert Kennedy
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor ... Also
somewhat inconsistently
blessed are the poor! — George Bernard Shaw
somewhat inconsistently
blessed are the poor! — George Bernard Shaw
It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.
— Theodore Roosevelt
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
— Douglas Coupland
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
— Seneca The Younger
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
The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.
— Basava
The sight of an obese poor man - like that of a skinny rich man - is puzzling.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
— George Bernard Shaw
Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.
— Mary Pope Osborne
I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.
— John Cassavetes
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
— Marshall McLuhan
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
— Ethel Mumford
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa Of Avila
The poor man is poor because he will not heed instruction.
— Fred C. White
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
— Laurence J. Peter
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,
the rich man to get a stomach to his meat. — Benjamin Franklin
the rich man to get a stomach to his meat. — Benjamin Franklin
A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself
— Swami Vivekananda
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
— Baruch Spinoza
Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.
— Rita Gonzalez
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
— Khalil Gibran
Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.
— Bill Gaede
Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.
— William Shakespeare
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
— Rajneesh
The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.
— Alexandre Dumas
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
— Henry David Thoreau
Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.
— Anonymous
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Guilt, the poor man's mind control.
— Karen Kijewski
I DIDN'T KNOW THE POOR MAN laid out in his birthday suit on Claire's table, only that his death might have been related to the Del Norte tragedy.
— James Patterson
If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?
— Sara Sheridan
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
— Ovid
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
— Frederick The Great
Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,
But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:
He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. — William Shakespeare
But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:
He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. — William Shakespeare
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
— Archibald MacLeish
The rich will make temples for Shiva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head a cupola of gold.
— Anonymous