“ He wrapped himself in quotations — as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
“ Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread. ”
- D. T. Niles- Copy
“ God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, they don't know it. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Anzia Yezierska- Copy
“ Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
“ It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity. ”
- Aristippus- Copy
“ All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
“ Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
“ True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
“ As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
“ When beggars die there are no comets seen;The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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