Quotes of: Poor-people Keyword

Casting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-ed...

The Seven Poor Travellers

Jellon Lamb: Forgive me, sir, but I've been stuck here with no one but this sorry sack of Hibernian pig shit for conversation. Poor, poor Dan O'Reilly. Sit, sir. Drink with me. [Charlie cocks his gun and points it to Lamb] Charlie Burns: One more cra...

The Proposition

Richie: I think he's very lonely. Lonelier than he lets on. Maybe lonelier than he even realizes. Ethel: Have you spoken to him about this? Richie: Briefly. And he agreed that... Chas: I'm sorry, maybe I'm a little confused here. What are you suggest...

The Royal Tenenbaums

In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.

Divided & Conquered

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

As my father always says, there’s no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.

Breath of Life

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Hamlet

It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories

Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.

I Am America

I'm surprised he doesn't reach for a wet nap to rid his hands of my general poorness.

The Liberator

And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

Selected Poems

Where the rich lead,the poor will follow, or try to.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

Oscar Wilde

He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor (Proverbs 22:9).

Proverbs 22 9

We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

Pete Rose

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Pope Leo XIII

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

Ray Kroc

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Samuel Johnson

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Sam Levenson