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:

    For you always have the poor with you...
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 14:7.

    Jesus.

    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)

    There is thy gold—worse poison to men’s souls,
    Doing more murder in this loathsome world
    Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
    I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)