Pastoral Resources

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.