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Poor Quotes

"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider."

Anna Lindh, Swedish Politician

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"The walls are the publishers of the poor."

Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan Journalist

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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor."

Dorothy Day, American Activist

Poor, Salvation

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"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Poor, Spirit, Words

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"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."

Thomas Malthus, English Economist

"In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor."

Ferdinand Mount, British Writer

"I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider."

Willie Stargell, American Athlete

"The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them."

David Brooks, American Politician

"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

"Poor fellow, he suffers from files."

Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Politician

"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."

William Bligh, British Soldier

"I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else."

Jimmy Swaggart, American Clergyman

Poor, Salvation

"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."

Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

"He who hesitates is poor."

Mel Brooks, American Comedian

"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."

August Wilson, American Playwright

"The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor."

Josiah Strong, American Clergyman

"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor."

Letitia Landon, British Poet

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

"I think I'm a very poor piano player."

Ray Manzarek, American Musician

"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Poor, Republicans, Vote

"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."

Henry IV, French Royalty

"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich."

Holbrook Jackson, English Writer

"Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich."

Naomi Klein, Canadian Journalist

"It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."

George Lindsey, American Actor

"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."

Sophie Tucker, American Entertainer

"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."

Lisa Loeb, American Musician

"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."

Jonathan Kozol, American Writer

"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."

Edmund Waller, English Poet

"Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems."

Peter Schuyler, English Politician

Poor, Problems, Questions

"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."

Edgard Varese, American Composer

"I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York."

Kristin Davis, American Actress

"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."

Herman Gorter, Dutch Poet

"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."

Henri Rousseau, French Artist

"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

"And plenty makes us poor."

John Dryden, English Poet

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

"It is a sin to be poor."

Charles Fillmore, American Educator

"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."

John Chrysostom, Greek Clergyman

"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."

Stanley Marcus, American Businessman

"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."

Ann Landers, American Journalist

"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."

George Whitefield, American Clergyman

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

Emma Lazarus, American Poet

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."

Edward Dyer, English Poet

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