You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide.
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.
No one is either rich or poor who has not helped himself to be so.
When the devil grows poor he becomes a tax collector.
He who leaves a good name does not die poor.
The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.
The devil visits the rich too -- but he visits the poor twice.
When two poor men help each other, God laughs.
What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.
While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
