“ Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
- 4K
“ Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
- 823
“ Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. ”
- Robert Greene- Copy
- 1.2K
“ It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified, That beggars mounted run their horse to death. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1K
“ To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
- 142
“ A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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
- 3.5K
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