Pastoral Resources

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

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

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

I'll always be poor in my mind.