Best poverty & poor-man Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.”

“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.”

Knows Men Feels Poor Poverty Down And Broke Wheels Engines Poor Man Lonesome

Author:Bob Dylan

“How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!”

Men Ends Light Poor Poverty Childhood Tunnels Gloom Poor Man Railway Future Life Extremity

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.”

Men Left Poor Poverty Cold Spring Fortune Poor Man Better Days

Book:Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes

Source: Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes

“If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.”

Ifs Men Done Poor Responsibility Class Poverty Type Sole Motto Crushed Poor Man Housework Badges Antithesis

Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.”

“A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.”

Men Poor Poverty Cry Conscience Hunger Stealing Stomach Craving Poor Man Appease

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.”

Ifs Men Giving Helping Able Poor Poverty Shoes Refuse Stores Neighbor Stealing Hungry Bread Abundance Thieves Needy Poor Man Cloaks Moths Barefoot Mildew

Author:Christine de Pizan

“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.”

Ifs Men World Enough Whole Easy Poor Poverty Crime Whole World Ashamed Despised Poor Man Blunders

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“Money is a poor man's credit card.”

Men Poor Poverty Credit Cards No Money Credit Card Poor Man Time And Money

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

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

Men Needs Poor Poverty Illusion Bread Belly Poor Man

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“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.”

Men Giving Whole Care Poor Careers Poverty Society Aids Every Man Poor Man Hairstyles Incumbents Riches And Poors

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

Men Hard Poor Race Poverty Land Dollars Bottom Hardship Black History Poor Man Black History Month Ending Poverty Black History Month Inspirational Riches And Poors

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.”

Men Way Inspiration Truth Poor Poverty Honest Honesty Honest Man Poor Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Hunger makes a thief of any man.”

Men Poor Poverty Sad Hunger Thieves Poor Man Ending Poverty World Hunger Ending Hunger Hunger And Poverty Hunger Poverty Hunger For Food Food Banks Hunger Awareness

Book:The Good Earth

Source: The Good Earth

“It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.' Suddenly ashamed of my conspicuous poverty, I lowered my eyes. But Scatha placed a hand beneath my chin and raised my head. 'Cling too tightly to your life and you will lose it, my Reluctant Warrior. You must become the master of your life, not its slave.”

Men World Hands Eye Given Loses Wealth Poor Poverty Masters Losing Gold Slave Raised Accomplish Warrior Ashamed Reluctant Chins Poor Man

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

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