Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Thomas Fuller

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
David Brainerd

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Wendell Willkie

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.
Gordon Parks

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.
Alan Ladd

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
Donald Rumsfeld

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Sholom Aleichem

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

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
Nina Simone

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
James Hillman

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

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
Jello Biafra

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Sophocles