I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.
The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.
In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.
A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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