Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
Make yourselves scabs?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Do not tell me ... of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)