Poor Quotes
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
William Butler Yeats
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Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.
Fausto Cercignani
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
Vita Sackville-West
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People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."
Robert Wyatt
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Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.
Bill Vaughan
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The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
Vivienne Westwood
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When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.
Anthony Ray Hinton
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We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.
Mother Teresa
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The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.
Mother Teresa
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The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric.
Ellen Raskin
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It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
Rich Mullins
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When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.
George Stevens
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You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
Sean Parker
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Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
Henry Ward Beecher
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You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
Al Koran
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Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!
Candace Wheeler
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Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?
Cardinal Mazarin
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I've heard, 'Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn't know how to govern.' Gibberish!
Michel Temer
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Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.
Arlene J. Chai
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I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
Dolly Parton
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A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."
Thomas Sowell
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The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.
Eliza Parsons
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
Homer
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Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
Stevie Smith