Famous quotes containing the word poor:
“Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutord mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“A poor persons youth, like moonlight in winter, is never appreciated.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
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