The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles.
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
God is cruel to the poor.
The best democracy has neither too rich nor too poor citizens.
“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.