Top 100 A Beggar Quotes
#1. A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.
George R R Martin
#2. The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.
Michael Kruger
#3. A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.
Homer
#4. Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#5. A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
R. Scott Bakker
#8. Non-possession does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.
Boep Joeng
#9. When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he ...
Emily Dickinson
#10. Dusk shrouds the long and useless day.
Even the hope it denied us crumbles
To nothing ... Life is a drunken beggar
Holding out his hand to his own shadow.
Fernando Pessoa
#11. Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?Give him another kick, you deserve it!
Wei Wu Wei
#12. Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
Rajneesh
#13. My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#14. I just told you that I used to be a thief, a beggar, and a whore. Is it really fair for you to cry foul over my question? - Bones
Jeaniene Frost
#15. I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#16. I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by.
William Butler Yeats
#17. Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
Homer
#18. If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.
Peire Cardenal
#20. Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
Anzia Yezierska
#21. 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
#22. Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.
Rajneesh
#23. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.
Rudyard Kipling
#24. Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
Benjamin Franklin
#26. I NEVER lost as much but twice,
And that was in the sod;
Twice have I stood a beggar
Before the door of God!
Angels, twice descending,
Reimbursed my store.
Burglar, banker, father,
I am poor once more!
Emily Dickinson
#27. 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.
Ben Hecht
#28. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
Rajneesh
#29. You are the honoured guest,
Do not weep like a beggar
For pieces of the world.
Rumi
#30. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. Doc
Tavis Smiley
#31. I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.
Billy Meier
#32. Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
Jean Baudrillard
#33. You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar ... It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.
Swami Vivekananda
#34. Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.
Robert Browning
#35. What good was owning the world when he'd have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he'd rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.' (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. But if we never hug a harlot, befriend a beggar, or forgive our enemy seventy times seven, then we confess grace with our lips but mock it with our lives.
Preston Sprinkle
#38. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.
William Shakespeare
#39. Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.
R. Scott Bakker
#40. I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I
#41. What you powerfully hold
In your thought-world
Will make you either
A street beggar
Or a great king.
Sri Chinmoy
#42. A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
Lord Byron
#43. I'll be any man you want. A king or a beggar or a farmer or a killer. But I'll never be the man who can let you walk away.
Kit Rocha
#44. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")
Cornell Woolrich
#46. As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in.
George Saunders
#47. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
Adam Smith
#48. Meanwhile, life passes on and time runs out. The culture of wanting more simply for the sake of more can occupy a person for an entire lifetime. But in the end, life is over. It terminates for the beggar and the affluent just the same, whether one is old or young, rich or poor, happy or sad.
Hamza Yusuf
#49. A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
Oscar Wilde
#50. From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.
Angela Carter
#51. A Beggar Just Begs,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 6, 2016
Petra Hermans
#52. The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.
Morris L. Ernst
#53. Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.
Vivek Wadhwa
#54. As one person put it, passing on the good news is simply a matter of one beggar telling another where to find bread. That
Iain M. Duguid
#55. 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
#57. Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#58. I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .
R.S. Thomas
#59. Wait! Wait!" The beggar called out from behind her. "I can see! I'm healthy!" Hilda smiled to herself, pleased. "You just took away my livelihood! Do you have any idea how hard it is out here for a healthy beggar?" The man sounded almost angry.
J.L. Langland
#60. The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.
Philip Neri
#61. A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.
John Marsden
#62. You have lived on broken hearts all your life," said Caspian, "and if you are beggared, it is better to be a beggar than a slave. But where is my other friend?
C.S. Lewis
#63. It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He
Frank Herbert
#64. I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
Corrie Ten Boom
#65. Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
Walter Raleigh
#66. A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Juvenal
#67. Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.
Jim Carrey
#68. He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling
#69. A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
Brennan Manning
#70. A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.
Charles Spurgeon
#71. Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.
Sol Luckman
#72. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
William Shakespeare
#73. Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)
George R R Martin
#74. He was lanky, wiry as an apostrophe mark, and dressed in clothes that appeared to have come from a beggar's bin.
Kristin Hannah
#75. Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.
Rajneesh
#76. Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'
Mo Ibrahim
#77. A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#78. Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.
Yasunari Kawabata
#79. You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them
D.H. Lawrence
#81. There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
Dalai Lama
#82. Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
#84. A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.
T. B. Joshua
#86. A piece of bread,
some fresh water,
the shadow of a tree and your eyes, my beloved.
No sultan is happier than me,
no beggar more sad.
Omar Khayyam
#87. We do not receive a life that is short, but rather we make it so; we are not beggar in it, but spendthrifts.
Seneca.
#88. Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!
Ted Anthony Roberts
#89. Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.
John James Audubon
#90. Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.
James Shikwati
#91. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.
Samuel Johnson
#92. Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
George Bernard Shaw
#93. A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
L. S. Lowry
#94. 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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#95. All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
Walter Benjamin
#96. A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
William Gurnall
#98. Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar.
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.
Mindy Kaling
#100. A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
Donald Miller
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