POOR QUOTES

• The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow.
  ~ Charles Churchill ~
• He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• The biggest frustrations of a subordinate is not poor performances but poor-minded superiors!
  ~ Catherine Tolentino ~
• Opportunity is not for poor minds, but rather for the rich to be more prosperous.
  ~ Gabriel Oluwalana ~
• We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
  ~ Sir Walter Raleigh ~
• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
  ~ Herman Melville ~
• Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.
  ~ Joseph Brodsky ~
• Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
  ~ Edmund Spenser ~
• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
• If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• How poor are they who have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty
  ~ Emma Lazarus ~
• Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
  ~ John Donne ~
• Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• When a rich man is sick, a poor man will pay him a visit to say sorry and wish him a speedy recovery. When a poor man is sick, he waits to recover then goes to tell that rich man that he has been sick"
  ~ Petah Soul ~
• Great people are known for their relentless pursuits regardless of status, but the poor are always satisfied with little or no effort.
  ~ Effi David ~
• The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
  ~ Haile Gebrselassie ~
• You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
  ~ Haile Gebrselassie ~
• Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
  ~ Jason Mraz ~
• Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
  ~ Jason Mraz ~
• If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.
  ~ Richard Russo ~
• Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• 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.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• 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.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
  ~ Angela Davis ~
• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
  ~ David Miliband ~
• Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
  ~ Edward Abbey ~
• At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
  ~ James Hillman ~
• The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
  ~ Dennis Miller ~
• The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
  ~ Jawaharlal Nehru ~
• The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
  ~ Billy Sunday ~
• I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
  ~ Jeremy Rifkin ~
• A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
  ~ Andrea Dworkin ~
• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
  ~ Charles Darwin ~
• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
  ~ Charles Darwin ~
• I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
  ~ Toni Morrison ~
• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
  ~ Adam Smith ~
• Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
  ~ Adam Smith ~
• In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
  ~ Thomas Mann ~
• Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
  ~ Major Owens ~
• I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
  ~ Alan Dershowitz ~
• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
  ~ William Penn ~
• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
  ~ Scott Walker ~
• As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
  ~ Barry Commoner ~
• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
  ~ Jackie Kennedy ~
• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
  ~ Jackie Kennedy ~
• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
  ~ Jackie Kennedy ~
• Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
  ~ Lord Acton ~
• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
  ~ Bono ~
• Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
  ~ Bono ~
• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
  ~ Jonathan Kozol ~
• But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
  ~ Jonathan Kozol ~
• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
  ~ Jonathan Kozol ~
• A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
  ~ Henny Youngman ~
• I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
  ~ Dolly Parton ~
• I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
  ~ Cher ~
• I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
  ~ Cher ~
• If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
  ~ Harry Browne ~
• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
  ~ Harry Browne ~
• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
  ~ Harry Browne ~
• When Elephant chases us , we can hide When Snake tries to catch us, we can escape When Dog and Bull approach , we can manage . But It is difficult to escape from Coronavirus though it is invisible We can never underestimate invisible or infinitesimal creature. Likewise We can never underestimate poor or low caste people
  ~ Velu ~
• I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
  ~ Jenny Mccarthy ~
• I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
  ~ Jenny Mccarthy ~
• Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
  ~ William Tecumseh Sherman ~
• To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
  ~ Carl Lewis ~
• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
  ~ Wendell Willkie ~
• Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.
  ~ Fred Upton ~
• There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
  ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
• Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
  ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
• Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
  ~ Arthur Erickson ~
• Money is a poor man's credit card.
  ~ Marshall Mcluhan ~
• Money is just the poor man's credit card.
  ~ Marshall Mcluhan ~