I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
Money is a poor indicator of success.
This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.
A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat. "
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
There's a reason Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix are our four fastest-growing areas. They offer an astonishingly high standard of living for ordinary Americans. New York City is a great place to be really rich and not a terrible place to be really poor, but it's a pretty hard place to live on $60,000 a year. You don't experience anywhere near the basic standard of living you would in Houston on the same income.
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.