Poor Quotes
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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
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Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
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The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.
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It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.
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For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.
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Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.
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It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
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A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
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When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
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The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.
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Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
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Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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I never got a job from a poor person.
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The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
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In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.
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The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.
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To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
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Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
