Poor Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I am not ashamed to confess that twenty five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boat - just what might happen to any poor man's son.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Some poor child living in an obscure place, in an underprivileged social setting, may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness."

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.