Beggar
One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
One who makes it his business to ask alms.
One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
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Beggar Quotations
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Don Herold
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Charles Lamb
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus
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
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
Margaret Cavendish
Is an artist much more than a beggar?
Clara Schumann
Beggar Translations
beggar in Danish is tigger
beggar in Dutch is schooier, bedelaar
beggar in French is gueux, mendiant
beggar in German is Bettler, Bettler, Kerl, an den Bettelstab bringen
beggar in Italian is accattapane
beggar in Latin is pauper
beggar in Norwegian is tigger
beggar in Portuguese is mendigo, pedinte
beggar in Spanish is mendigo
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