Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Ovid

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

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
Thomas Huxley

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray Kroc

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
Bob Barker

A great artist is never poor.
Isak Dinesen

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Vernon Howard

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Nikki Giovanni

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Orison Swett Marden

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
Tony Campolo

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
Tony Campolo

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.
Tony Campolo

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
Tony Campolo