Poor Man Quotes - Page 3

• Poor man. Poor mankind.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Poor, Mankind

  Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1971). “Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”, Random House Inc

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• Only poor men get hanged.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Poor

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• The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Humanity, Poverty

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• Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Law, Helping

  William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (2004). “Pericles: Third Series”, p.234, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• 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.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Brave, Poor

  "Legend". Book by David Gemmell, pt 1: Against the Horde, ch. 31, 1988.

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

  Prince Philip

  Men, Way, Leisure

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• Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

  Epictetus

  Drama, Men, Long

  Epictetus (2015). “The Enchiridion”, p.17, Xist Publishing

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• Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

  Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena

  Men, Advice, Hazards

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Conde Lucanor, 1922.

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• In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

  Lord Acton

  Wisdom, Strong, Ignorance

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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!

  Robert Burns

  Friendship, Men, Law

  Robert Burns (1868). “Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns”, p.66

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• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

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• And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

  Rajneesh

  Men, People, Frustrated

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• Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

  Epictetus

  Business, Character, Men

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.502, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Eric Cantona

  Men, Proud, Rich

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

  Swami Brahmananda

  Men, Differences, Suffering

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• I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini or a road company Cosimo de' Medici ... the Renaissance Man did a number of things, many of them well, a few beautifully. He was no damned specialist.

  Lucius Beebe

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

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• Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.

  Stephen Charnock

  Taken, Men, Voice

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.678, Ravenio Books

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• There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

  Bat Masterson

  Summer, Winter, Men

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• 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.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Teresa of Avila (2017). “The Way of Perfection”, p.39, Whitaker House

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• You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “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!

  Reverend Ike

  Men, Thinking, Pie

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• 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.

  Reverend Ike

  Men, Thinking, Heaven

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• Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

  Susan Griffin

  Men, Desire, Together

  "A Writer's Debilitating Illness Becomes Her Lens on Society" by Judith Gingold, www.sfgate.com. August 8, 1999.

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• 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.

  Diogenes

  Time, Men, Rich

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Kings, Heart, Men

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ’s blood alone can cleanse us; Christ’s righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ’s merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Kings, Men

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