A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
If all Christians and Jews tithed their income as the Bible commands, every poor person would be cared for, every naked person clothed, and every hungry person fed.
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.
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
I don’t think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there’s some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
Dependency arguments often come from elites – either aid agencies or governments – and say something about attitudes to poor people.
World’s children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world’s children – marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable – continue to suffer.
I decided, if I’m going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I’m going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
The body is the soul’s poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.
I grew up poor, black, and working class.
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
If it doesn’t reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
I’ve chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they’re usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there’s a sort of ‘us versus them’ situation. They’re easy to poke fun at.
I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he’s ruined it. I can’t make another joke about him.
I think I’m a very poor piano player.
I’ve always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.
I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Success has got nothing to do with being happy. I’ve been very rich, and been unhappy, and I’ve been very poor, and been happy.
Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn’t care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn’t know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.
To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.
I think Morse’s thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
And plenty makes us poor.
I don’t think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they’re black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That’s what we’re upset about.
Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humanity; he is very human, very mortal. So he even gets hurt. He has a poor background, but when he wears the costume, he forgets all of that, all the pressures of the society on him.
It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
I wasn’t a good-looking child. I got screwed out of the genetic deal. My sister looks like a model. I think that’s why I’m a comic. I’m deeply insecure, since I was always feeling ugly. I wasn’t a healthy child. I had poor self-esteem. That’s why I need people’s approval.
South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn’t find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, ‘Oh, we’re energy poor; we don’t have enough oil; we don’t have enough natural gas.’
If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.
There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.
I’m a Christian, a wife, a mother, a homeschooler, a conservative, a citizen journalist, a talk radio host, an insatiable music nerd who plays a poor rhythm guitar, a blogger, a proud granddaughter of a sailor, and a proud tea partier in awe of the potential and the people in this movement.
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.
I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn’t care less. I’m not a snob.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.
It’s more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
I didn’t have the easiest time growing up; it’s no secret. We were just poor.
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.
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
There’s nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry – living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
