Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found’st me poor at first, and keep’st me so.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

“But how do the poor minority fare? Perhaps it will be found that just in proportion as some have been placed in outward circumstances above the savage, others have been degraded below him. The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another. On the one side is the palace, on the other are the almshouse and “silent poor.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)