Quotes about Poor Man

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing. Votes: 3

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. Votes: 2

Even a poor man can receive honors. Votes: 1

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. Votes: 1

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. Votes: 1

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. Votes: 1

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. Votes: 1

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. Votes: 1

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK. Votes: 1

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. Votes: 1

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. Votes: 1

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man. Votes: 1

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture. Votes: 1

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. Votes: 1

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. Votes: 1

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. Votes: 1

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes. Votes: 1

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. Votes: 1

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. Votes: 1

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. Votes: 1

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me. Votes: 1

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.' Votes: 1

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? Votes: 1

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. Votes: 1

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. Votes: 1

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. Votes: 1

We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you. Votes: 1

Poor man. Poor mankind. Votes: 0

Economy, the poor man's mint. Votes: 0

Sex is the poor man's polo. Votes: 0

Hope is the poor man's bread. Votes: 0

Bed is the poor man's opera Votes: 0

Ability is a poor man's wealth. Votes: 0

The covetous man is always poor. Votes: 0

Bells, the poor man's only music. Votes: 0

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. Votes: 0

Guilt, the poor man's mind control. Votes: 0

... frugality makes a poor man rich. Votes: 0

Let the poor man mind his tongue Votes: 0

Money is a poor man's credit card. Votes: 0

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor. Votes: 0

Poor is the man who desires a lot Votes: 0

The man of science is a poor philosopher. Votes: 0

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. Votes: 0

No man is poor who has a Godly mother. Votes: 0

A poor man fear for money works against him. Votes: 0

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. Votes: 0

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight... Votes: 0

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all. Votes: 0

You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. Votes: 0

Man can only describe God in his own poor language. Votes: 0

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj. Votes: 0

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. Votes: 0

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job. Votes: 0

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock. Votes: 0

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. Votes: 0

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. Votes: 0

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. Votes: 0

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. Votes: 0

The poor man is poor because he will not heed instruction. Votes: 0

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger. Votes: 0

In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering. Votes: 0

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more. Votes: 0

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving. Votes: 0

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him. Votes: 0

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. Votes: 0

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. Votes: 0

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging. Votes: 0

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another. Votes: 0

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student Votes: 0

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king. Votes: 0

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money. Votes: 0

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. Votes: 0

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor. Votes: 0

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed. Votes: 0

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness. Votes: 0

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid. Votes: 0

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death. Votes: 0

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory. Votes: 0

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. Votes: 0

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich. Votes: 0

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. Votes: 0

He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars. Votes: 0

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom. Votes: 0

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets. Votes: 0

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. Votes: 0

An honorable man has a heart for the poor and vulnerable in our society. Votes: 0

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. Votes: 0

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. Votes: 0

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man. Votes: 0

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. Votes: 0

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that! Votes: 0

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money. Votes: 0

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich. Votes: 0

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man. Votes: 0

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth. Votes: 0

No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! Votes: 0

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Votes: 0

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. Votes: 0

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect. Votes: 0

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty. Votes: 0

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. Votes: 0

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man. Votes: 0

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living. Votes: 0

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Votes: 0

Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy! Votes: 0

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger. Votes: 0

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. Votes: 0

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. Votes: 0

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name Votes: 0

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. Votes: 0

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. Votes: 0

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness. Votes: 0

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. Votes: 0

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. Votes: 0

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. Votes: 0

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor. Votes: 0

A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman Votes: 0

Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man's attitude. Ask HOW to afford it. Votes: 0

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband. Votes: 0

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. Votes: 0

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense Votes: 0

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. Votes: 0

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. Votes: 0

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich. Votes: 0

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Votes: 0

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. Votes: 0

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings. Votes: 0

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering. Votes: 0

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings Votes: 0

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials. Votes: 0

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. Votes: 0

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream. Votes: 0

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money. Votes: 0

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything. Votes: 0

Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. Votes: 0

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. Votes: 0

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could? Votes: 0

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? Votes: 0

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. Votes: 0

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.] Votes: 0

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity. Votes: 0

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less Votes: 0

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers. Votes: 0

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness. Votes: 0

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. Votes: 0

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does. Votes: 0

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. Votes: 0

A son of a poor man is standing in front of you today. This is the strength of a democracy. Votes: 0

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity! Votes: 0

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death. Votes: 0

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes. Votes: 0

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. Votes: 0

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts. Votes: 0

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation. Votes: 0

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer. Votes: 0

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. Votes: 0

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.'' Votes: 0

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. Votes: 0

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money. Votes: 0

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart. Votes: 0

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money Votes: 0

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat. Votes: 0

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand. Votes: 0

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman? Votes: 0

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless. Votes: 0

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. Votes: 0

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band. Votes: 0

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself Votes: 0

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. Votes: 0

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate. Votes: 0

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong. Votes: 0

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ... Votes: 0

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. Votes: 0

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. Votes: 0

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor! Votes: 0

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. Votes: 0

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation. Votes: 0

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man. Votes: 0

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! Votes: 0

A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment. Votes: 0

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man. Votes: 0

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief! Votes: 0

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man. Votes: 0

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed. Votes: 0

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income. Votes: 0

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels. Votes: 0

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church. Votes: 0

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably. Votes: 0

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. Votes: 0

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice. Votes: 0

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level. Votes: 0

The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. Votes: 0

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? Votes: 0

Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began. Votes: 0

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace! Votes: 0

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich. Votes: 0

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. Votes: 0

Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours. Votes: 0

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. Votes: 0

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. Votes: 0

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself. Votes: 0

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it. Votes: 0

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru." Votes: 0

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude. Votes: 0

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru. Votes: 0

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. Votes: 0

Poor is the man who thinks money makes him wealthy. Love is the true treasure, and the more you give away, the more you have. Votes: 0

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good. Votes: 0

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. Votes: 0

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. Votes: 0

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him. Votes: 0

I tried to mug a wealthy man, but was unsuccessful because I was out of coffee cups. I wish I was less poor and more pour. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold. Votes: 0

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor. Votes: 0

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. Votes: 0

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor. Votes: 0

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. Votes: 0

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second. Votes: 0

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick. Votes: 0

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings. Votes: 0

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope. Votes: 0

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William. Votes: 0

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. Votes: 0

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing! Votes: 0

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola... Votes: 0

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience. Votes: 0

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it. Votes: 0

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life. Votes: 0

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave. Votes: 0

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not. Votes: 0

When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality. Votes: 0

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich. Votes: 0

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. Votes: 0

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out. Votes: 0

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! Votes: 0

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. Votes: 0

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion. Votes: 0

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man. Votes: 0

The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold. Votes: 0

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence. Votes: 0

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault. Votes: 0

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. Votes: 0

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. Votes: 0

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon. Votes: 0

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other. Votes: 0

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own. Votes: 0

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door. Votes: 0

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Votes: 0

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim. Votes: 0

Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life? Votes: 0

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.] Votes: 0

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets. Votes: 0

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations. Votes: 0

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street. Votes: 0

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street Votes: 0

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. Votes: 0

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low. Votes: 0

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich.No, not rich,he said. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. Votes: 0

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities. Votes: 0

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. Votes: 0

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end. Votes: 0

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity! Votes: 0

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end. Votes: 0

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit. Votes: 0

If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in . He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper. Votes: 0

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know! Votes: 0

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar. Votes: 0

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. Votes: 0

Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars. Votes: 0