Poor Man Quotes

• Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

  Glen Cook

  Dream, Men, Rich

  Glen Cook (2010). “The Many Deaths of the Black Company”, p.314, Macmillan

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• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Truth, Honesty, Inspiration

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• To a man with an empty stomach food is God

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Men, Poverty

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• Hunger makes a thief of any man.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sad, Men, Hunger And Poverty

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media

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

  Josh Billings

  Men, Design, Poverty

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• Hope is the poor man's bread.

  George Herbert

  Life, Hope, Food

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Dream, Men

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• 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.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Grateful, Men

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• Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Men, Rich

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

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kings, Men, Rich

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• To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

  Peter Ustinov

  Fun, Men, Rich

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• 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.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Men, Order

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• Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of choice to the poor man, a range greater than that which not many generations ago was open to the wealthy

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Choices, Generations

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• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.]

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Office

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• It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Poor

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• A poor man fear for money works against him.

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Men, Poor

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

  Abu Bakr

  Pride, Men, Rich

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• Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Justice, Diversity, Care

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

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Needs, Poverty

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.62, Da Capo Press

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

  Sidney Poitier

  Father, Men, Poor

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October, 2000.

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• I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

  Huey Long

  Kings, Jobs, Children

  "Huey Long". Book by T. Harry Williams, 1969.

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• Even a poor man can receive honors.

  Sophocles

  Men, Honor, Poor

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• Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Father, Son, Men

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• The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Greed, Want

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.85

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