Poor Quotes - Page 32

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.

Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping, yes, this would be a transfer of income from the poor to the rich. But allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money does not qualify as taking it from the poor - unless you believe that the poor have a moral claim to the money other people earn.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

A great artist is never poor.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.

The rich don't exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.