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Poor Quotes

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

It is a matter of simple knowledge that the human likes to see the struggle between the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuccessful.

I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

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.

The test is always how we treat the poor.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

We have enough objects of charity at home, and it is our duty to take care of our own poor, and our own suffering, before we go abroad to intermeddle with other people's business.

The cruel injustice is that even though the world's poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they're going to suffer the most from it.