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

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
Tony Campolo

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Laurence J. Peter

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
Ben Affleck

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

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
Diana Vreeland

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Agnes de Mille

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas de Chamfort

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

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

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Juliette G. Low

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Theodor Adorno

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
George Foreman