Poor Man Quotes - Page 3

• Poor man. Poor mankind.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Poor, Mankind

  Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1971). “Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”, Random House Inc

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• Only poor men get hanged.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Poor

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• The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Humanity, Poverty

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• Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Law, Helping

  William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (2004). “Pericles: Third Series”, p.234, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Brave, Poor

  "Legend". Book by David Gemmell, pt 1: Against the Horde, ch. 31, 1988.

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• I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

  Prince Philip

  Men, Way, Leisure

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• Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

  Epictetus

  Drama, Men, Long

  Epictetus (2015). “The Enchiridion”, p.17, Xist Publishing

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• Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

  Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena

  Men, Advice, Hazards

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Conde Lucanor, 1922.

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• In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

  Lord Acton

  Wisdom, Strong, Ignorance

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Men, Stories, Body

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Wish, Poverty

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• A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.278

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• The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

  Victor Hugo

  Gratitude, Men, Joy

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• Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Chloroform, Painful

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  Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

  Albert Pike

  Artist, Men, Genius

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

  Bat Masterson

  Summer, Winter, Men

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• The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three-body, mind, and heart- that we find spirit. ... Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero's strength, the mother's resilience, and the poor man's armor. It cannot be broken, and it cannot be taken away.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Mother, Determination, Taken

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.224, Wizards of the Coast

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• Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

  Georges Bernanos

  Dream, Loneliness, Simple

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• Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Men, Feet

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• When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

  Eric Cantona

  Men, Proud, Rich

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• All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rich, Pity

  Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays "The Utopia of Usurers" (1917)

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• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Home, Humble

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

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• I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.

  Leon Wagner

  Baseball, Lying, Hero

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• Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Teresa of Avila (2017). “The Way of Perfection”, p.39, Whitaker House

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• Money is a poor man's credit card.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Cards, Credit

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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