poor Quotes

“Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.”

“I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.”

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”

“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.”

“Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.”

“In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.”

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

“Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.”