Zitat des Tages über Bettler / Beggar:
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.
Is an artist much more than a beggar?
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.
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.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
