Beggar Quotes - Page 6

• There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

  Henry George

  Money, Work, Way

  "Social Problems".

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• The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Time, Attitude, Fall

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

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• Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Poverty, Etc

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• The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Poverty, Poor

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• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.

  Thomas Adams

  Children, Wife, Sorrow

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• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

  Andre Gide

  Effort, Mind, Genius

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, India, Meals

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1571, Manonmani Publishers

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• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

  Peire Cardenal

  Horse, Men, Justice

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• Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Kings, Ignorance, Men

  The New York Times, (p. 23, c.8), July 11, 1935.

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• Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
  Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
  They are but beggars that can count their worth;
  But my true love is grown to such excess,
  I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Conceited, Substance, Matter

  "Romeo et Juliette: tragédie".

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• Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

  Frank Schoonmaker

  Wine, Piano, Smell

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• The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.

  Max Weber

  Artist, Soldier, Gains

  1904-5 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Talcott Parsons,1930).

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• Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Faith, Christian, Hands

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• With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, War, Men

  Fidel Castro's speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack, July 26, 1978.

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• The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

  Ellen Key

  Happiness, Children, Mean

  Ellen Key, Mamah Bouton Borthwick (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Rays, Demand

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

  Robert Browning

  Adventure, Two, Preparation

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• Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

  Thomas Paine

  Honor, Poverty, Bitterness

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• I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul.

  Neil Morrissey

  America, Kabul, World

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• Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given -- it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Love Is, Want, Pity

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.299, Tiger L.L.C.

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• Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Kings, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1837). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”

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• To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Lying, Needs

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.50

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• A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Simple, Leprosy

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 171, 1951.

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