Poor Quotes

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

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.

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.

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

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.