Poor Man Quotes - Page 9

• I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.

  Christmas Evans

  Past, Men, Wings

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• Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Money, Queens

  Louisa May Alcott (1993). “Little Women”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• Economy, the poor man's mint.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Economics, Economy

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “The Poetical Works”, p.353

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• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

  O. Henry

  Philosophy, War, Rip

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, People, Sound

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Men, Shadow

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Wall, Fighting, Animal

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• If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Men, Benches

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• Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Joy, Littles

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• The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thieves, Want

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.19, Bantam

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• Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.

  Pope Gregory I

  Honesty, Men, Fire

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• We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.

  Pope Gregory I

  Humble, Men, Names

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• Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily; if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.

  Epictetus

  Men, Long, Honor

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• Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Evil, Sacred

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• ... frugality makes a poor man rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

  Eyedea

  Love Is, Men, Names

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• A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Kissing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.71

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• Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Money, Men, Thinking

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Apples, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.209, Gibbs Smith

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• A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know.

  George Holyoake

  Kings, Men, Luxury

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• Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?

  Sheri Fink

  Men, Dying, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's dance, they were all so nicely clothed, gowned, coiffured. That's why I decided to wear white socks, loafers, T-shirts, and blue jeans. I had a sociopolitical context in front of me: I was a child of the Depression who danced in a way that would represent the common man.

  Gene Kelly

  Children, Men, Blue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Answers, Rich

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• The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Cost Of Living, Politics

  Song: Fish 'N' Chip Paper, Album: Trust, 1981

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• Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

  Jethro Tull

  Men, Hands, Thieves

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