Poor Quotes
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.
