Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

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