If wishes were stories, beggars would read.
Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out if we kick the beggar at the door, where is our devotion? Compassion towards the poor is our duty to God. Mother is not saying that we should give money to every beggar that sits in front of a temple, but do not despise them. Pray for them as well. When we hate others, it is our own mind that becomes impure. Equality of vision is God.
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.
Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.
The bashful beggar has an empty purse.
BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Beggars market their incapacity.
We are all beggars, each in his own way.
