Poor

Poor

Poor is an adjective related to a state of poverty, low quality or pity.

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Famous quotes containing the word poor:

    The poor are disliked even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:20.

    Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
    That found’st me poor at first, and keep’st me so.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    My family’s lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include us, no matter how hard I tried to squeeze us in. There was an idea of the good poor—hard-working, ragged but clean, and intrinsically honorable. I understood that we were the bad poor ...
    Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)