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

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Ah, if I could only make your dear heart ache one little minute of each day as mine does every day and all day long, it might lead you to show pity to your poor lonely one.

Nature does not often say “See!” to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply “Here!” to a body’s cry of “Where?

You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you’ll suffer yet!

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts – in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma – would someday be called Congressman.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he’s somebody, that God didn’t create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.

Oh! just, subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will never heal, and for ‘the pangs that tempt the spirit to rebel,’ bringest an assuaging balm; eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath; and to the guilty man, for one night givest back the hopes of his youth, and hands washed pure of blood..

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray

Pirates do not use to set upon poor empty vessels; and beggars need not fear the thief. Those that have most of God, and are most rich in grace – shall be most assaulted by Satan, who is the greatest and craftiest pirate in the world

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old

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

Many cry to the Lord that they may win riches, that they may avoid losses; they cry that their family may be established, they ask for temporal happiness, for worldly dignities; and, lastly, they cry for bodily health, which is the patrimony of the poor. For these and suchlike things many cry to the Lord; hardly one cries for the Lord Himself! How easy it is for a man to desire all manner of things from the Lord and yet not desire the Lord Himself! As though the gift could be sweeter than the Giver!

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor.

Times have changed since Christ’s day. A rich man to-day who gives all he has to the poor is crazy. There is no discussion. Society has spoken.

As some one has said, they do everything for the poor except get off their backs.

When I was young if a girl married poor, she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet and a doll. – Susan B. Anthony A.

Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It’s got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers’ comp. And God help you if you’re poor and mentally ill.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.

It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.

World’s children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world’s children – marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable – continue to suffer.

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: “I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Why do we need to make the rich richer to make them work harder but make the poor poorer for the same purpose?

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.

It’s not. This was a poor example of democracy internationally, but also within our own country.

Dr. Rush’s Bilious Pills,” laxatives that were 50 percent mercury. I think they were reusable: you swallowed one, suffered the violent scatological consequences, reclaimed the pill, washed it and saved it for the next poor sucker

Crack cocaine is the contemporary beaver, an international fad that has radically altered the economics of the poorest, marginal people, indigenous America. The gangs are the tribes of the New World

There is a duty to improve the lot of others. Charity isn’t personal, it’s public. It’s owed not just to God and salvation but to the nation: the idea that America itself deserves its citizens’ charity, not because it is poor but because it could always be richer.

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry… no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Shame has a poor memory.

The day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole.

All language is but a poor translation.

I fell asleep on the situation. I pride myself on being professional and not showing anyone up. It was a poor error in judgment.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

The test is always how we treat the poor.

Tis so much joy! ‘Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so This side the victory!

Your thoughts don’t have words every day. They come a single time Like signal esoteric sips Of the communion wine Which while you taste so native seems So emblematic, too, That all your other thoughts are poor And this is nectar now.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

You can’t help the poor by becoming one of them.

Lotto tickets cheap beer That’s why you can catch me here Tryna scratch my way up to the top

Your poor little heart will end up alone ‘Cause Lord knows I’m a rolling stone

Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.

Hope is the poor man’s bread.

Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all . The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or non-believing, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

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.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness—that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved. What then?

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, “I’m a free man in here” – he tapped his forehead – “and you’re all right.”

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he’s a ruler.

I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and rich is better.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

Yes, we are overcharged for everything nowadays. I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich

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

No one has ever become poor by giving

I am for doing good to the poor, but I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontent makes rich men poor.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.

Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that.

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth

It wasn’t enough to deliver cheap, reliable energy for the poor. It also had to be clean.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Please all, and you will please none

No man is so poor as not to have many valuable friends

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

If you’re born poor, it’s not your mistake. But if you die poor, it is your mistake.

If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.

I’ve been a rich man, and I’ve been poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time.

Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty. I’ve been a poor man, and I’ve been a rich man. And I choose rich every Time. Coz at least as a rich man when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo wearing a 2,000 Dollars suits and a 40,000 dollars gold watch.

I’ve not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I’ve given them a voice.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

I come from a place between the bricks where it was hard at.

I’ve been through all the bad parts of the streets.

I come from a place between the bricks where it was hard at.