82 Quotes on Poor

• Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

  Author: August Wilson

• It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

  Author: George Whitefield

• Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

  Author: Edmund Waller

• I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

  Author: Edgard Varese

• To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

  Author: Raoul Vaneigem

• For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

  Author: Mo Udall

• I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

  Author: Sophie Tucker

• Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

  Author: William Thackeray

• I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

  Author: Jimmy Swaggart

• The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• 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.

  Author: Ian Smith

• The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.

  Author: Bessie Smith

• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.

  Author: Peter Schuyler

• Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

  Author: Franz Schubert

• I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

  Author: Henri Rousseau

• The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

  Author: Plutarch

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• Though I be poor, I'm honest.

  Author: Thomas Middleton

• He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

  Author: Jules Michelet

• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  Author: Karl Marx

• Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.

  Author: Stanley Marcus

• I think I'm a very poor piano player.

  Author: Ray Manzarek

• The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

  Author: Thomas Malthus

• I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

  Author: Lisa Loeb

• It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

  Author: George Lindsey

• The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

  Author: Al Lewis

• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  Author: Emma Lazarus

• Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

  Author: Letitia Landon

• The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

  Author: Ann Landers

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

  Author: Ray Kroc

• You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

  Author: Jonathan Kozol

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  Author: Naomi Klein

• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

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

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

  Author: Holbrook Jackson

• This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

  Author: Alfred Hitchcock

• The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

  Author: Alfred Hitchcock

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

  Author: Hesiod

• I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

  Author: Henry Henry IV

• If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

  Author: Bobby Heenan

• When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

  Author: E. Harburg

• No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

  Author: Thomas Haliburton

• The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• The walls are the publishers of the poor.

  Author: Eduardo Galeano

• He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

  Author: Thomas Fuller

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

  Author: Edward Dyer

• When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have.

  Author: Patrick Duncan

• And plenty makes us poor.

  Author: John Dryden

• 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.

  Author: Emily Dickinson

• We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

  Author: Thomas Day

• I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

  Author: Dorothy Day

• I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

  Author: Kristin Davis

• Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

  Author: Ornette Coleman

• I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

  Author: John Chrysostom

• You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

  Author: Albert Camus

• He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

  Author: John Bunyan

• He who hesitates is poor.

  Author: Mel Brooks

• The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

  Author: David Brooks

• Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

  Author: William Bligh

• Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

  Author: Aneurin Bevan

• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Author: Henry Beecher

• Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

  Author: James Baldwin

• Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

  Author: Francis Bacon

• Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

  Author: Aesop

• They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

  Author: Creighton Abrams, Jr.

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