Poor Quotes
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Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
Colonel Sanders
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
William Booth
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Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
Chris Kyle
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The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.
William Jennings Bryan
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
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The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.
William Blum
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Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.
Sam Brownback
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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
Oscar Wilde
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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
Brian Tracy
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anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
Caitlin Thomas
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Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.
William Law
