Poor famous quotes

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Poor #Undeserving

You can't help the poor by being one of them.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Helping #Poor #Help The Poor

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Poor #Wealthy

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.
-- Adrienne Clarkson

#Giving #Rich #Poor

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
-- Aesop

#Life #Appearance #Poor

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Dance #Passion #Poor

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
-- Al Koran

#Thinking #Wealth #Poor

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
-- Alan Kay

#Poor

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.
-- Alan Ladd

#Kids #Parent #Poor

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...
-- Alan Watts

#Wake Up #Littles #Poor

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
-- Albert Camus

#Rich #Poor #Trade

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Poor #Achieve

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Sex #Alive #Poor

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
-- Alex Steffen

#Mother #Poor #Driven

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
-- Alexander Pope

#Soul #Poor #Holes

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
-- Alexander Pope

#Poor #Stewards #Stores

Haste is a poor counselor
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Haste #Poor #Counselor

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
-- Alfred the Great

#Rich #Poor #Doom

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
-- Alison Arngrim

#Actors #Poor #Broke

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
-- Alistair Begg

#Men #Wealth #Poor

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Mind #Poor #States

I was born to poor because of honest parents.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Parent #Honest #Poor

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks
-- Amit Abraham

#Long Distance Relationship #Communication #Poor

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
-- Andre Breton

#Light #Sun #Poor

Only the poor can create art.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Art #Poor

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
-- Andrew Rannells

#Moving #Towns #Poor

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
-- Aneurin Bevan

#Suffering #Poor #Bureaucracy

Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.
-- Angela Merici

#Reality #Needs #Poor

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Poverty #Poor

I have the grace of providence to be poor.
-- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

#Grace #Poor #Providence

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
-- Anzia Yezierska

#Father #Bread #Poor

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Heart #Poverty #Poor

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights
-- Art Linkletter

#Hobos #Poor #Grew Up

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
-- Arthur Helps

#Pity #Poor #Relation

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.
-- Atul Gawande

#Outsiders #Firsts #Poor

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
-- August Wilson

#Poor

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Poor

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich

#Our Society #Facts #Poor

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Political #Rich #Poor

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
-- Barney Frank

#Decision #Etc #Poor

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
-- Beatrix Potter

#Desire #Stronger #Poor

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
-- Ben Affleck

#Sleep #Romance #Poor

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
-- Ben Bova

#Numbers #Poor #Increase

The poor should live by alms.
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Poor #Alms #Should

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
-- Benjamin Cardozo

#Honest #Poor #Substitutes

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Poverty #Poor #Should

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
-- Benjamin Tucker

#Laissez Faire #Sauce #Poor

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
-- Bernard Crick

#Character #Poor #Relation

Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'
-- Big L

#Poor

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
-- Bill Gates

#Country #World #Poor

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.
-- Billie Holiday

#Growing Up #Poverty #Poor

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
-- Billy Sunday

#Poverty #Wealth #Poor

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.
-- Blake Griffin

#People #Poor

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
-- Bram Stoker

#Girl #Lasts #Poor

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
-- Brendan Behan

#Deeds #Forget #Poor

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.
-- Britt Ekland

#Meat #Vegetarian #Poor

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
-- Bryan Stevenson

#Character #Poor #Treats

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?
-- Buster Keaton

#Dope #Looks #Poor

The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers
-- C. K. Prahalad

#Lying #Poor #Company

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
-- C. L. R. James

#Rich #Poor #Forbearance

He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
-- C.P. Cavafy

#Pagan #Lord #Poor

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.
-- C.P. Cavafy

#Wise #Mean #Poor

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
-- Caitlin Thomas

#Drinking #Poor #Alcoholism

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?
-- Cardinal Mazarin

#Soul #Poor #Last Words

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Poor #Backgrounds #Harder

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
-- Chance the Rapper

#People #Poor

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
-- Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#Government #Poor #South Africa

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
-- Charles A. Murray

#America #Cost #Poor

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Dream #Work #Poor

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
-- Charles Churchill

#Men #Reason #Poor

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Suffering #Christ #Poor

You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.
-- Charleszetta Waddles

#Mind #Looks #Poor

Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
-- Charlie Batch

#Preparation #Planning #Poor

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.
-- Charlotte Beers

#Poor #Substitutes #Consensus

I'll always be poor in my mind.
-- Chet Atkins

#Mind #Poor

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
-- Chris Hedges

#Smell #Academia #Poor

There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.
-- Chris Oyakhilome

#Riches #Christ #Poor

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.
-- Chris Weitz

#Surfer #Poor

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
-- Christine McVie

#Rich #Poor #Ashamed

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.
-- Chuck Close

#White #Poor #Trash

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.
-- Chuck Klosterman

#Way #Rich #Poor

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
-- Clarence Darrow

#Trials #Rich #Poor

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.
-- Claudia Gray

#Trying #Poor #Danger

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.
-- Claudio Hummes

#Priorities #Church #Poor

Whoever desires is always poor.
-- Claudius Claudianus

#Latin #Desire #Poor

The covetous man is always poor.
-- Claudius Claudianus

#Men #Greed #Poor

Sex is the poor man's polo.
-- Clifford Odets

#Sexy #Men #Poor

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
-- Clifton Fadiman

#Writing #Choices #Poor

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
-- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

#Army #Bad Ass #Poor

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
-- Criss Jami

#Giving #Matter #Poor

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.
-- Cynthia Tucker

#Children #Black #Poor

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
-- Cyril Burt

#Ignorance #Poor #Proof

I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.
-- Dan Aykroyd

#Money #Nightmare #Poor

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'
-- Dave Ramsey

#Mind #Poor #Broke

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
-- David Brainerd

#Wife #Boards #Poor

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
-- David Brooks

#Rich #Poor

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.
-- David Gemmell

#Men #Brave #Poor

What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.
-- David Leadbetter

#Player #Addresses #Poor

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
-- David Platt

#Care #Poor #Outcast

Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.
-- Dean Ornish

#Needs #Care #Poor