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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Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
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I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
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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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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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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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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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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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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the 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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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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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?
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On the eve of the strike, we saw very, very poor performance.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...
