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

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace

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

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
John Hume

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
John Hume

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Robin Williams

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Democritus

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
Tyler Perry

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Billy Sunday

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

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?
William J. Clinton

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
Evita Peron

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Evita Peron

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Evita Peron

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Evita Peron

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
Uta Hagen

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Lord Chesterfield

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Desmond Tutu