Beggar Quotes - Page 14

• Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Wise, Kings, Men

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• A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

  Hesiod

  Men, Race, Envy

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• Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Tired, Desert

  Sonnet 66

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• Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Powerful, Wish

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Strong, Demand, Fool

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• Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

  James Shikwati

  Independent, Taught

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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