Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“One may be old in years, but not in spirit, or poor in wealth, but not in ambition.”
—Chinese proverb.

“In verity ... we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)