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Beggar Quotes - Page 2

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

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

James Shikwati
Independent, Taught, Beggar
Source: www.spiegel.de

Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

William Shakespeare
Holiday, Shops, Beggar
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

Jeffrey R. Holland
Spiritual, Difficulty, Beggar

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

Garth Nix
Begging, Beggar, Ifs
Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.232, Hot Key Books

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

Ambrose Bierce
Friendship, Beggar, Assistance
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.29, Courier Corporation

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

William Shakespeare
Conceit, Beggar
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.297

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

Walter Benjamin
Long, Myth, Beggar
Walter Benjamin, Rolf Tiedemann (1999). “The Arcades Project”, p.404, Harvard University Press

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Mason Cooley
Hate, Beggar, Ifs

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

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

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

Dalai Lama
Generosity, Obstacles, Beggar
Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

Charles Bukowski
Lines, Beggar
Charles Bukowski, David Calonne (2013). “Absence of the Hero”, p.152, City Lights Books

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

Rutherford B. Hayes
Public Service, Beggar, Jolly
"Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

If wishes were stories, beggars would read.

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

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

Rajneesh
Life, Love Is, Beggar

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Friedrich Schiller
Virtue, Command, Beggar
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Love and Intrigue: Top Classic of German”, p.38, 谷月社

There's beggary in love that can be reckoned

William Shakespeare
Love You, Beggary

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

William Hazlitt
Kings, Acting, Beggar

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

William Cranch Bond
Purses, Empty, Beggar

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Juvenal
Traveller, Beggar

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.

Jim Carrey
Believe, Don't Believe, Beggar

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

Horace
Poverty, Turns, Beggar

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

Homer
Men, Shame, Beggar
Homer (1950). “The Complete Works of Homer: The Iliad”

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Unhappiness, Accountants, Beggar

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