Poor Man Quotes

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. Fields

Money, Nothing, Rich

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

Money, Live, Poor

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

Work, Best, Home

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Hard, Poor, Hardships

Even a poor man can receive honors.
Sophocles

Poor, Honors, Receive

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Money, Rich, Same

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

Poor, Count, Flock

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

Money, Nothing, Poor

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

Rich, Poor, Makes

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

Country, Poor, Foreigner

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Plautus

Rich, Poor, Makes

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
Ben Hecht

Envy, Rich, Poor

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza

Power, Society, Care

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome

Men, Enough, Poor

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr

Bad, Rich, Poor

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

Society, Evil, Rich

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Georges Bernanos

Hope, Nothing, Poor

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

Father, Important, Poor

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
Sidney Poitier

Father, Him, Poor

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.
Gene Simmons

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Rich, Poor, Poverty

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.
Marcus Minucius Felix

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
Sydney Madwed

Self, Everything, Poor

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
Gerrit Smith

Enemy, Free, Poor

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
Johann Most

Live, Poor, Himself

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
Robert Ley

Life, Live, Sunshine

I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.
Andre Dubus III

Change, Work, Romantic

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

Poor, Desire, Almost

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
Gregory Nunn

Successful, Rich, Poor

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