Beggar Quotes - Page 9

• Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?Give him another kick, you deserve it!

  Wei Wu Wei

  Dog, Men, Giving

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• The problem for most of us is that the cup has holes, so love goes out just as easily as it goes in. What happens when people are living in the unconditional state of love, however, is that they recognize they are the ocean of love; they know it's their essence. And they naturally overflow in this love. So instead of being love beggars, they become love philanthropists.

  Marci Shimoff

  Ocean, Love Is, Essence

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.

  Pope Francis

  Humility, People, Giving

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• He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Feet, Deformity

  "The Life of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Moore, 1831.

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• A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Gold, Vices

  Lord Byron (2013). “The Vision of Judgement”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

  George Orwell

  Doors, Weather, Differences

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• Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.

  Emma Goldman

  Kings, Army, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.179, Library of Alexandria

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• New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

  Duke Ellington

  New York, Dollars, Cadillacs

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

  Morris L. Ernst

  Littles, Shoulders, Borrowing

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• This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Country, Years, Perception

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• Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Teaching, Order, Jail

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• I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Army, Dollars, Half

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• I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be given dole. He should not be eligible for welfare. If he can work and if there is work available, he should take his choice. If he wants to be a hermit or beggar, that's fine. If he wants to move with the sun and live off the land, that's fine. If he is in a society which has work for him I don't think he should theoretically be eligible for welfare.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

  Homer

  Men, Shame

  Homer (1950). “The Complete Works of Homer: The Iliad”

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• Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fun, Selfish, Sacrifice

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.425, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.

  William Saroyan

  Wise, Stupid, Humble

  "The William Saroyan Reader". Book by William Saroyan, "The Beggars", 1958.

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• Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

  Hesiod

  Potters, Singers

  Of a quarrel within a village. Opera et dies, 25 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Sea, Giving

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• If wishes were stories, beggars would read.

  Randall Jarrell

  Wish, Stories, Ifs

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

  Charles Lamb

  Pockets, Painful, Deny

  Charles Lamb (1903). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Miscellaneous Prose”, p.500, Library of Alexandria

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• He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Men, Giving

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• She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Eye, Men

  Song: She Sings Songs Without Words, 1974

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• Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

  Charles Lamb

  Rags, Dresses, Poverty

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.127

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• A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

  Juvenal

  Traveller

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