Top 25 Poor Man Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Poor Man Quotes from famous people such as Kamal Haasan, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Alexander Armstrong, Basmah bint Saud, Piyush Goyal, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitutio

If it doesn’t reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.
Kamal Haasan
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
I once started tennis lessons and turned some poor man grey overnight. Now I feign injuries when I’m asked for a game.
Alexander Armstrong
We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
Basmah bint Saud
Even a poor man doesn’t ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.
Piyush Goyal
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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
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
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
Robert Kennedy
Live and think like a poor man and you’ll always be OK.
Gene Simmons
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
Ovid
I’d seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
Sidney Poitier
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
If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.
Aliko Dangote
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. Fields
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier
Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.
Romesh Wadhwani
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.
John Dalberg-Acton
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
In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln
Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey – the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.
Isabella Bird
Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
James Altucher