It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Jackson

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Edward Abbey

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Denis Waitley

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis de Sade

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Jean Piaget

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Paul Harvey

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope