T Quotes
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“The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.”
“The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.”
Source: Curiosity
“The poor man and the beggar are two quite different classes: one commands respect, the other arouses anger.”
Source: Aphorisms and Thoughts
“The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.”
“The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.”
“The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.”
Source: Apology ; De spectaculis
“The poor man is poor because he will not heed instruction.”
“The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.”
“The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,
the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The poor man’s face twisted into a grimace and he pounded on the bar, protesting loudly. “Oh, you shush,” Kim demanded as she continued to knead his shoulders, jerking his whole body as she worked. “You’ll like this in a minute.”
Source: Problems at the Pub
“The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.”
“The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.”
Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
“The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.”
“The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.”
Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896
“The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.”
“the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...”
Source: Education: An Essay and Other Selections
“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.”
“The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“The poor mother! This is the reward you get for your love. Is that what you expected? Well, the fact of the matter is that mothers don't expect rewards. There's no rhyme or reason — they just love.”
Source: The Same Old Story
“The poor mother! This is the reward you get for your love. Is that what you expected? Well, the fact of the matter is that mothers don't expect rewards. There's no rhyme or reason — they just love. Do you achieve greatness and fame, are you proud, is your name on everyone's lips, do your deeds resound around the world? Then your mother trembles with joy, she weeps, laughs and prays long and ardently. But you, the son, rarely think of sharing your success with the woman who bore you. Are you lacking in wit or spirit, has nature denied you beauty, are your heart and body dogged by ill health, do people shun you, and is there no place for you among them? Then so much the bigger is your place in a mother's heart, and so much more tightly does she enfold you in her arms, ill-favored, failed creature though you are, and so much the longer and more fervently does she pray for you.”
“The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.”
Source: Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1878-1886
“The poor need help today, not next week.”
“The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.”
Source: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy
“The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.”
“The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.”
“The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.”
“The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.”
Source: Joshua
“The poor of the country feel that they are given weightage by the political parties because they need their votes and election being the day when they bathe and dress up better because it's their day when they are given importance by High-end people.”
Source: Electionomics
“The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs from the feast. You must take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. And you must treat them like guests at your family table.”
Source: Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace
“The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see stacked up against them. We are sometimes tempted to look upon the poor as so many ne'er-do-wells we can simply ignore. But they will return to haunt our peace, because they are greater than their badge of suffering, because they are human.”
Source: Africa's Tarnished Name
“The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.”
“The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us.”
Source: The writings of John Burroughs
“The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea.”
“The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.”
“The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.”
“The poor person dreams of having a million dollars; the rich person dreams of adding another million dollars to the millions he or she already has. As a result, accumulations of money block the real flow of wealth and poison nearly every aspect of our collective lives. In such an environment, it can be difficult to remember that money is simply a tool for managing the flow of real wealth among people...”
“The poor persons medical oxygen supply is at sea level.”
“The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.”
“The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.”
“The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."”
“The poor should live by alms.”
“The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.”
“The poor sleep little.”
“The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.”
Source: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
“The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.”
“The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.”
“The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.”
“The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.”