Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The poor man!”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“Young, and so thin, and so straight.
So straight! as if nothing could ever bend her.
But poor men would bend her, and doing things with poor men,
Being much in bed, and babies would bend her over,
And the rest of things in life that were for poor women,
Coming to them grinning and pretty with intent to bend and to kill.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)