Poor Man Quotes

“দরিদ্র পুরুষদের প্রতি মেয়েদের একপ্রকার মায়া জন্মে যায়,আর এই মায়া থেকে জন্মায় ভালোবাসা।”
― Humayun Ahmed

“لم أسمع عن فتاة وقعت في غرام شاب فقير”
― أنيس منصور, لحظات مسروقة

“A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man; a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your heart determines if you are rich or poor”
― Sonya Withrow

“A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime.”
― Imran Khan

“Street music is always good even it is bad, because actually there is only one melody over there: The melody of life struggle of a poor man!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves. It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“An honest, poor, but otherwise unremarkable man and his loving, tender-hearted wife, though long forgotten and lost to history, may have been the ancestors who are most worthy of our admiration today.”
― Laurence Overmire, Digging for Ancestral Gold: The Fun and Easy Way to Get Started on Your Genealogy Quest

“How much better off the poor man would be if he devoted himself to reading.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“God has great riches for you. If thy will seek Him.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You’ll concur that it is in sour taste for the poor to pour his meager funds into an endeavor on the spur of the moment. He should tour the proposal to the core so as to be sure a pore does not bore in his expectation.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The poor make the rich, rich. For without the poor, the rich are also poor.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine. I not only think about food all day, but I dream about it at night.
But I don’t ask to go back to America, to be put in a double harness again, to work the treadmill. No, I prefer to be a poor man of Europe. God knows, I am poor enough; it only remains to be a man.”
― Henry Miller

“Wisdom and riches are not always synonymous. There are instances of 'rich but foolish' and 'poor but wise'. Solomon's riches did not result from his wisdom; he was blessed riches also. The wisest of all men was poor. He was poor enough to obtain a coin from someone in his audience (without ridicule) to postulate the famous quote, "give Caesar's things to Caesar ..." Next time you ridicule a poor man's suggestion as bereft of wisdom, think twice. What he may be bereft of is the opportunity or sterner stuff it requires to convert it to cash.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“The best way to help the poor is to help them get rich.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A rich man is poor when he acts like a poor man.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov