Top Poor Quotes

Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and...

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing a...

Poor Definition

(superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

(superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.

(superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected

(superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.

(superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.

(superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.

(superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.

(superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.

(superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.

(superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.

(superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.

(superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

(n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The death of American soldiers is as painful as the death of civilians in Afghanistan, and what makes our world a better place is not pouring more guns and weapons in this country, but educating the u...

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Democracy is the process to elect the Government of the Upper class or caste people, by the poor people and for the corporate people - Idiotneil

Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems...

I may be very poor, but I'm rich in so many other ways.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.

How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produc...

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can't Give You Honesty.