Best proud & poor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was happy to be a scrub. I was proud to be a scrub. When I got older and I started talking to girls, part of my game when I was talking to them was to tell them how poor I was. I actually enjoyed that.”

Girl Games Poor Talking Proud Enjoyed

Author:Joseph Bruce

“Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.”

Poor Taught Proud Wine Beer Bliss Fancy Ecstasy Steers Muddy Ale

Author:George Crabbe

“I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.”

Whole Poor Rich Saws Wise Stupid Proud Healthy Sick Humble Fats Beggar Crippled

Author:William Saroyan

“Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.”

Should Humans Spirit Poor Powerful Wonderful Proud Creatures Speech Mouths Devil Mere Driven Proceeding

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.”

Men Made Self Jobs Poor Pride Proud Self Made Self Made Man

Author:Ethel Mumford

“Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.”

Strong Nations Community Poor United Planets Proud Belonging Our Planet Poorest

Author:Mathieu Kerekou

“Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.”

Ifs Mind May Persons Lying Natural Poor Rich Pride Proud Bravery Fortune Defense Temptation Former Occasions Arrogance Insult Latter Depressing Forgiven Dishonesty Censure

Author:Samuel Richardson

“It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poor Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretence

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.”

Source: Nature - Conduct of Life

“It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.”

Ifs Lasts Term Poor Color Proud Offers Strikes Ships Conquer Resorts Stoops

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.”

People Knows Want Should Hands Poor Pride Proud Dignity Treats Fallen Inherent Poor People Bad Day Hands Up Handouts

Author:Desmond Tutu

“When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?”

Black White Poor Boys Rich Grew Proud Married Grew Up Daughter Black Boy Proud To Be An American

Author:Molly Ivins

“We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.”

Knows Men Names Poor Known Lord Rich Proud Humble God Knows Our Lord Poor Man Heathen

Author:Pope Gregory I

“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich”

Mind Body Poor Rich Proud Be Proud Garments Purses

Book:The dramatic works and poems of William Shakespeare, with notes, original and selected, and introductory remarks to each play

Source: The dramatic works and poems of William Shakespeare, with notes, original and selected, and introductory remarks to each play

“We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.”

Poor Grew Proud Grew Up

Author:Pedro Martinez

“Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.”

People Dies Born Poor Proud Humble Be Proud Honored Be Humble

Author:Pope John XXIII

“My inspiration comes from many sources, and one of those sources is precisely the maison Versace. When I was a little boy, my family was not very well off. I had a sister who worked in a hairdressing salon. I lost my dad when I was 4 or 5 years old. I grew up with eight sisters and my mom. Nine incredible women all a little "à la Donatella Versace." Real strong women from the South of Italy, women who had sensuality. They had a confidence in their body and in their sensuality. And it was a poor family, I am very proud to say it.”

Real Inspiration Strong Poor Boys Mom Proud Dad My Family Incredibles My Dad My Mom Sensuality Strong Women Little Boys Versace

Author:Riccardo Tisci

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