Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.”
—Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)