Zitat des Tages über Armer Mann / Poor Man:
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Even a poor man can receive honors.
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.
Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.
Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
