Beggar Quotes - Page 12

• The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

  Fidel Castro

  Progress, Alliances, Millionaire

  Interview with C. L. Sulzberger, November 7, 1964.

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• Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Alchemy, Emperor

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• Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Doors, Meditation, Relaxation

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• Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren’t you?

  Rumi

  Doors, Hands, Long

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.161, Shambhala Publications

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• Beggars should be no choosers.

  John Heywood

  Should, Begging

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.170

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• As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.

  Simone Weil

  Fate, Imperfection, One Day

  "Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)".

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• Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Men, Animal

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• If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Light, Lovely

  "Kiran Desai Talk Asia interview". Interview With Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Art, Kings, Sadness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks and drugs. We should not give them a chance to err. Try not to see them as beggars, but as God himself.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Giving, Drug, Trying

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• Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out if we kick the beggar at the door, where is our devotion? Compassion towards the poor is our duty to God. Mother is not saying that we should give money to every beggar that sits in front of a temple, but do not despise them. Pray for them as well. When we hate others, it is our own mind that becomes impure. Equality of vision is God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

  Dominick Dunne

  Kings, Play, People

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• It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Helping Others, Men, Practice

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• What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Teacher, Laughter

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.

  Herman Melville

  War, Mean, Passion

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.177, Penguin

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• Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

  Nick Harkaway

  Photography, Lying, Cat

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• One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Charity, Addresses, Poverty

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

  W. H. Auden

  Money, Book, Confession

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• I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Past, Men, Thinking

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.488, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Kings, Mistake, Lying

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)”, p.169, The Overlook Press

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• My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Giving, Stuck

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• Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

  Steven Rattner

  Dresses, Urban, Assault

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• I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do you think Bell is supposed to be?" "I don't know, probably our age." "I think the beast is sweet, don't you?" "Do I have to answer that?" "Why does the crockery talk?" "Because they're really the prince's servants that the beggar woman put a spell on." Xavier frowned suddenly and looked mortified. "I can't believe I know that.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Sweet, Believe, Thinking

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• A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.

  L. S. Lowry

  Marriage, Kings, Bachelors

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• The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Lying, Dirty, Clothes

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