Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“Give me simplicity, that I may live,
So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
Know them and practise them: then shall I give
For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.”
—Michael Harrington (1928–1989)