Beggar Quotes - Page 9

• You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

  John Heilemann

  Running, Lonely, Home

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• The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Hands, Order

  "Commemorating The 70th Anniversary Of Liberation", www.ushmm.org.

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• Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

  Jim Carrey

  Believe, Fire, Have Faith

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Sleep, Night

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.395, Ballantine Books

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• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

  Peire Cardenal

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Spiritual, Difficulty

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• Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

  Homer

  Humble, Use, Modesty

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• For one who knows me, I am one with him;
  for one who wants to know me,
  I am very near to him;
  and for one who does not know me,
  I am a beggar before him.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Doe, Want, Know Me

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• The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

  Samuel Johnson

  Crowns, Half, Morality

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.349

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• Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.

  William Davenant

  Wise, Prayer, Ocean

  William Davenant, “Praise And Prayer”

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• If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are. You are gods who have forgotten who they are. You are emperors who have fallen asleep and are dreaming that they have become beggars. Now beggars are trying to become emperors, in dreams they are making great efforts to become emperors, and all that is needed is to wake up!" Osho

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Effort, Trying

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• What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Taken, Acceptance, Giving

  "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson".

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• Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

  Walter Raleigh

  Witty, Love Is, Silence

  Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Silent Lover II”

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• The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life.

  Knut Hamsun

  Sorry, Fall, Dust

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• Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has nothing else you will find the same ego as you will find in Alexander the Great, because desiring is the same. Alexander the Great may have much money and much power, that does not matter; he is still desiring. The beggar may not have anything, but he is also desiring.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Desire, Doe

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• Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Warrior, Reality

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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• Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Kings, Men

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Richard II”, p.82, Courier Dover Publications

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• Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Chinese, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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• Meditation opens the doors of your inner treasures, what Jesus calls the kingdom of god. Meditation is only a key, and keys are always small things, but they can unlock immense treasures. Everybody is born as a prince or a princess, but gets lost in the blind crowd of beggars.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Princess, Keys

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

  E. M. Forster

  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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• Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Virtue, Command

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Love and Intrigue: Top Classic of German”, p.38, 谷月社

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• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Office

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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• Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, Money, Lying

  James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole (1893). “The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell: With Biographical Sketch”

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• Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

  Hedda Hopper

  Movie, Eye, Heart

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “The Whole Truth and Nothing But”, p.266, Graymalkin Media

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• Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.

  Ayn Rand

  Goal, Political, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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