Famous quotes containing the word poor:
“There is thy gold, worse poison to mens souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayest not sell.
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. Miserable covers many; shabby most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, disagreeable includes them all.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (18651933)
“A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.”
—Georges Bernanos (18881948)
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