If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.
Beggars should be no choosers.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
If wishes were stories, beggars would read.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
It is only the story. . . that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort;without it,we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.
Beggars market their incapacity.
