Quotes of: Poor Keyword

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

Haitian

However poor the elephant, it will be worth more than ten frogs.

Nigerian

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

Community And Growth

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat.

Paradise of the Blind

The poor are sad they're poor, Adam had once mused, and turns out the rich are sad they're rich.

The Raven Boys

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

Rickie Lee Jones

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Sidney Poitier

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Khushwant Singh

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Andrew Young

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Hesiod

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Imran Khan

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Jean Anouilh

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Josh Billings

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

Frank Carson

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Abu Bakr

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Zig Ziglar