A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you’ll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Children don’t understand, when things aren’t given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That’s what I’ve been doing all my life.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people’s pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

I can’t afford to be dishonest. I also can’t afford to be poor.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn’t know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation’s Marie Antoinette’s and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It only depend on an individual which role he assumes first

You can never have too much money.

Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. “She’s a sweet girl, but poor.”Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. “Being poor is not an indication...

Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God’s theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers,...

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.

Kwa mwanamke wa kuoa natafuta hasanati. Akiwa mbaya atakuwa mzuri. Akiwa maskini atakuwa tajiri. Akiwa gumbaru atakuwa msomi. Akiwa mshamba atakuwa mjanja. Akiwa mjinga atapata maarifa. Nitampenda zaidi kwa mazuri kuliko mabaya.

Sadly, like any major city, there are pockets of poverty in Jacksonville. Four of those pockets can be found on the very pants I’m wearing.

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.

Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF’s conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

Life… For some it is battle for others its dance…For rich it is party for poor it is chance!

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

I’m just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I’m proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.

Don’t insult me today just because I’m poor, you don’t know what my future holds!

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I...

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others’ kindnesses.

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who...

I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks...

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

You’d be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you’ve never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. (“Dusk To Dawn”)

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope – young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart...

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I’ve started seeing everything I didn’t have.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

One thing’s sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

Don’t be so impatient in finding love; take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you’ll be busy reading the back of the book.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart’s lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would...