Poor Quotes

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.