Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“Just as poor families have dutiful children, so too there are loyal ministers in troubled times.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.”
—Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)

“Hear me, auld Hangie, for a wee,
An’ let poor, damned bodies bee;
I’m sure sma’ pleasure it can gie,
Ev’n to a deil,
To skelp an’ scaud poor dogs like me,
An’ hear us squeel!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)