Best 1392 quotes in «poor quotes» category

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

I think we can make a difference in the lives of the poor, and the millions.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is easy now for critics to claim that the work was poor; they haven't produced their own analyses or confronted any of the hard questions. For example, would they say that no technique beyond shouted questions could be used to interrogate a high-level terrorist leader, such as Osama bin Laden, who knows of planned attacks on the United States?

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

It's a poor thing to be sane!

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

It would be in pretty poor form for me to not be a big supporter of tech and computers because that is how I do my work and how I got involved. The advancement and the affordability of tech gear has made a level playing field where you can now have access to ideas reasonably and then it just comes down to extracting those ideas, which is great.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.