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Poor Quotes - Page 28

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

Mother Teresa
Giving, Vow, Poor
Source: mattersindia.com

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

Mother Teresa
Jesus, Invisible, Poor

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.

Michael Douglas
Making Money, Poor

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Mary Browne
Status Symbol, Excuse, Poor

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

Martin Amis
Teeth, Common, Poor
Martin Amis (2010). “Experience”, p.116, Random House

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

Mark W. Smith
Want, Rich Poor, Rich
Mark W. Smith (2008). “The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy 2008: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Loony Left This Election Year”, p.81, Regnery Publishing

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

Marie de France
Rich, Poor, Rich And Poor
Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

Margaret Thatcher
Ears, Poor, Dear

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doe, Poor, Serving God
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Louise Slaughter
Low Income, Poor, Lows

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Poverty, Poor, Feels
'The Poor'

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

Kathy Calvin
Mean, Poor, Victim
"Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

Joseph A. Schumpeter
Holy Grail, Poor, Substitutes
Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.137, Routledge

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

Jose Saramago
Rich, Poor, Globalization
Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

John Wesley
Crowns, Wreaths, Poor
John Wesley (1797). “A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the people called Methodists ... A new edition”, p.4

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

John Lewis
Average Joe, Alabama, Poor
Source: www.teachingbooks.net

And plenty makes us poor.

John Dryden
Poverty, Poor, Plenty
John Dryden (1972). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684”, p.47, Univ of California Press

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brain, Spirit, Poor
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1908). “Faust: Freely Adapted from Goethe's Dramatic Poem”

Good judgment is what you get from experience, which is what you have immediately after using poor judgement.

Jim Horning
Judgement, Judgment, Poor

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

Jean Vanier
People, Want, Poor

Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?

Isaac Watts
Poor, Walks
Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.208

Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction.

Ina May Gaskin
Lovers, Poor, Starting
Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.216, Random House

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

Horatio Bottomley
Education, Poor, University
Speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920, in Beverley Nichols '25' (1926) ch. 7

He is not poor who has a competency.

Horace
Poor, Competencies

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Men, Rich Or Poor

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