300 Quotes on Poor

• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

  Author: Loretta Young

• There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  Author: William Yeats

• Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

  Author: Lalu Yadav

• A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

  Author: Frank Wright

• Ability is a poor man's wealth.

  Author: John Wooden

• I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

  Author: James Wilson

• Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

  Author: August Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  Author: Robin Williams

• Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Who, being loved, is poor?

  Author: Oscar Wilde

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

  Author: George Whitefield

• And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

  Author: George Whitefield

• What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Author: Gideon Welles

• 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.

  Author: Robert Welch

• Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

  Author: Stand Watie

• This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

  Author: Maxine Waters

• Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

  Author: Walter Washington

• The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

  Author: Josiah Warren

• I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

  Author: Shane Warne

• Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

  Author: James Walsh

• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

  Author: Jim Wallis

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

  Author: Edmund Waller

• It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

  Author: George Wald

• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

  Author: Diana Vreeland

• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

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

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

  Author: William Vickrey

• At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

  Author: Wietse Venema

• The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• 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

• The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• 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

• Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

  Author: John Turner

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

  Author: Sophie Tucker

• Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

  Author: Sojourner Truth

• You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

  Author: Donald Trump

• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

  Author: Thomas Traherne

• Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

  Author: Mike Todd

• In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

  Author: Emma Thompson

• I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

  Author: John Thaw

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

  Author: William Thackeray

• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  Author: Mother Teresa

• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

  Author: Mother Teresa

• The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

  Author: William Temple

• While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

  Author: Jeremy Taylor

• A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

  Author: Ali Talib

• For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

  Author: Thomas Sydenham

• Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

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

  Author: Jimmy Swaggart

• I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

  Author: William Sumner

• Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

  Author: William Sumner

• Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• 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

• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

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

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

  Author: John Steinbeck

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

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

  Author: Edmund Spenser

• Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• Even a poor man can receive honors.

  Author: Sophocles

• There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

  Author: Sophocles

• Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

  Author: James Somerville

• My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

  Author: James Somerville

• Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

  Author: James Somerville

• We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.

  Author: James Somerville

• If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

  Author: King Solomon

• Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

  Author: Tony Snow

• My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

  Author: Ian Smith

• 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

• Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

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

  Author: Bessie Smith

• A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Adam Smith

• The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

  Author: Adam Smith

• Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

  Author: Manmohan Singh

• I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

  Author: Nina Simone

• The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

  Author: James Shirley

• Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.

  Author: John Shimkus

• 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.

  Author: William Sherman

• There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

  Author: William Shenstone

• Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

  Author: William Shenstone

• Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

  Author: George Shaw

• Very few people can afford to be poor.

  Author: George Shaw

• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

  Author: William Shakespeare

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

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

  Author: Luke Scott

• 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

• We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• 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

• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

  Author: Bruce Schneier

• 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

• Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

  Author: Girolamo Savonarola

• Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

  Author: Fred Savage

• There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

  Author: Mark Sanford

• Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

  Author: Mark Sanford

• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

  Author: Marquis Sade

• 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.

  Author: Saadi

• The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

  Author: Saadi

• We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• 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.

  Author: Richard Russo

• Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

  Author: Dora Russell

• 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

• See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

  Author: Josiah Royce

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

  Author: Henri Rousseau

• People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

  Author: Johnny Rotten

• My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

  Author: Diana Ross

• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

  Author: Al Roker

• That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

  Author: Bryan Robson

• There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?

  Author: James Robinson

• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Author: Tom Robbins

• To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

  Author: Bob Riley

• We've got to take care of the poor.

  Author: Bob Riley

• 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.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

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

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

  Author: Joshua Reynolds

• Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

  Author: Ivan Reitman

• In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

  Author: Godfrey Reggio

• You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

  Author: Martha Reeves

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

  Author: Dan Quayle

• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

  Author: Mario Puzo

• I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

  Author: David Prowse

• Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

  Author: Romano Prodi

• When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

  Author: William Prescott

• Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

  Author: Dennis Prager

• Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

  Author: Sidney Poitier

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

  Author: Plutarch

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

  Author: Titus Plautus

• All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

  Author: Plato

• Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

  Author: Albert Pike

• After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

  Author: Abbe Pierre

• I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

  Author: Jean Piaget

• Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

  Author: River Phoenix

• In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

  Author: Phaedrus

• The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

  Author: Charles Perrault

• Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

  Author: Evita Peron

• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

  Author: Evita Peron

• When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

  Author: Evita Peron

• I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

  Author: Evita Peron

• Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

  Author: Samuel Pepys

• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Author: Samuel Pepys

• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

  Author: William Penn

• China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

  Author: Li Peng

• No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

  Author: George Patton

• I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

  Author: Gordon Parks

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  Author: C. Parkinson

• The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

  Author: Theodore Parker

• The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

  Author: Orhan Pamuk

• Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

  Author: Carl Paladino

• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Author: Camille Paglia

• You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

  Author: Ignacy Paderewski

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  Author: Jack Paar

• 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.

  Author: Major Owens

• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

  Author: Ovid

• It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

  Author: Ovid

• Sex - the poor man's polo.

  Author: Clifford Odets

• It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

  Author: Flannery O'Connor

• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  Author: Barack Obama

• I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

  Author: Trevor Nunn

• It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

  Author: Gregory Nunn

• Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven.

  Author: Michael Novak

• And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

  Author: Lennart Nilsson

• The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

  Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

• At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

  Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  Author: Gabriele Nanni

• Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

  Author: Max Muller

• A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

  Author: George Muller

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

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  Author: Constance Motley

• It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

  Author: Johann Most

• 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.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

  Author: George Mitchell

• I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

  Author: Carmen Miranda

• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  Author: J. Miller

• We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

  Author: Henry Miller

• The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

  Author: Agnes Mille

• Though I be poor, I'm honest.

  Author: Thomas Middleton

• He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

  Author: Jules Michelet

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

  Author: Herman Melville

• I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

  Author: Christine McVie

• It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• Money is just the poor man's credit card.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• Money is a poor man's credit card.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

  Author: John McGahern

• The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

  Author: John McGahern

• The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

  Author: Brian May

• I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

  Author: Peter Matthiessen

• I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

  Author: Jules Massenet

• The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

  Author: George Mason

• 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

• I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

  Author: Frederick Marryat

• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  Author: Gabriel Marquez

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  Author: Orison Marden

• The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

  Author: Orison Marden

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  Author: Orison Marden

• 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

• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  Author: Imelda Marcos

• It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

  Author: Imelda Marcos

• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

  Author: Imelda Marcos

• God has always been hard on the poor.

  Author: Jean-Paul Marat

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

  Author: Ray Manzarek

• I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

  Author: Ray Manzarek

• Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

  Author: Don Manuel

• Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

  Author: Thomas Mann

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

  Author: Thomas Malthus

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  Author: Wendie Malick

• In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

  Author: Joseph Maistre

• I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

  Author: Norman Mailer

• Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

  Author: Sydney Madwed

• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  Author: Gavin MacLeod

• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

  Author: Wangari Maathai

• Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

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

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

  Author: Derek Luke

• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

  Author: James Lowell

• Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

  Author: Juliette Low

• A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

  Author: Trent Lott

• It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

  Author: Walter Lord

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