Top 100 Beggar Quotes
#1. Lila Bard might have been a thief but she wasn't a beggar. And
V.E Schwab
#2. Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
Jacoby Shaddix
#3. Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
#4. Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
Mason Cooley
#6. A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.
T. B. Joshua
#8. 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
#9. Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
Jean Baudrillard
#10. We do not receive a life that is short, but rather we make it so; we are not beggar in it, but spendthrifts.
Seneca.
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
L. S. Lowry
#16. I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land
every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike
all snored in the same language.
Malcolm X
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
William Gurnall
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
Donald Miller
#24. This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.
Bridget Asher
#25. There was no difference at all between the richest man and the poorest beggar, apart from the fact that the former had lots of money, food, power, fine clothes, and good health. But at least he wasn't any better. Just richer, fatter, more powerful, better dressed and healthier. It
Terry Pratchett
#27. There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus
#28. Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#30. Do not feed that beggar. Hamlet, lie down." The dog ignored her.
"Down," Viktor ordered, his deep voice stern. The dog whined and then lay down. The prince looked at her. "You need to be more forceful."
"I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.
Patricia Grasso
#31. For I suspect the next world will more plainly be a going on with this than most people think - only it will be much better for some, and much worse for others, as the Lord has taught us in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.
George MacDonald
#32. 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.
Giovanni Guareschi
#33. In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.
Hesiod
#34. In the morning, I wake up and salute the sun. I am grateful for the sun; it gives me hope that after every scary night it will rise to brighten me - The Beggar's Dance.
Farida Somjee
#35. I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land.
R.L. Bartram
#36. Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.
Mason Cooley
#37. We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see - a slumped figure in a corner, sleepers shivering on miserable mats of straw, a boy in rags lying on the ground with a beggar's pail bangled around one arm.
Ransom Riggs
#38. Broadway will give any beggar a cup of coffee and a sandwich, but it demands persistence of those who go after the big stakes.
Napoleon Hill
#39. To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.
Sidney Sheldon
#40. Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
Charles Lamb
#42. How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn't easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.
Pope Francis
#43. Happy St George's Day. Now kiss my beggar arse, you Puritans!
Jez Butterworth
#44. He that distributeth not That which he hath received
His food, his drink, his sustenance
Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer
Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.
Gautama Buddha
#45. We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.
Dalai Lama
#46. Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?
Jethro Tull
#47. Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods
Peter Maurin
#49. 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.
Margaret Cavendish
#50. Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.
Witold Gombrowicz
#52. At firs,money is like the wish-fulfilling Gem
Later,it becomes indispensable
In the end;you feel like a penniless beggar
These are my thoughts and feelings on money
So I renounced both wealth and goods
Milarepa
#53. When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.
Rajneesh
#54. I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.
Charles Dickens
#55. Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given
it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
Jacqueline Susann
#56. All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
#57. The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Don Herold
#58. Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary
William Shakespeare
#59. You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#60. He makes a beggar first that first relieves him;
Not us'rers make more beggars where they live
Than charitable men that use to give.
John Heywood
#61. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#62. A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight
Anonymous
#63. Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.
David Jeremiah
#64. Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
Jose Marti
#65. Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith.
Not hope, but faith.
I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.
Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it.
Jim Carrey
#66. Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes
James Hogg
#67. The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#68. BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
Ambrose Bierce
#69. Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you?
Rumi
#70. Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
Robert Greene
#71. You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
C.S. Lewis
#72. That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#73. From the king
To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants;
And you must grant, the slavery is less
To study to please one, than many.
Philip Massinger
#74. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.
Rudyard Kipling
#75. Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.
Guru Gobind Singh
#76. He was summertime itself, young, luminous, lit from within by rekindled hopes and reawakened dreams. And every beggar along his path - herself included - could expect redoubled generosity and kindness.
Sherry Thomas
#77. When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.
Albert Jay Nock
#78. If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
Elizabeth I
#79. But the man of independent feeling, except he be thus your friend, will not unlikely resent your compassion, while the beggar will accept it chiefly as a pledge for something more to be got from you; and so it will tend to keep him in beggary.
George MacDonald
#80. Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
Thomas Chalmers
#81. Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
William Shakespeare
#82. Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or ... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it.
Derek Taylor
#83. Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.
R.C. Sproul
#84. Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be - but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.
Hugh Nibley
#85. In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon the same level, and the beggar who suns himself by the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
Adam Smith
#86. It's amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you; sport armour and you look strong, dutiful, and prepared.
A.J. Darkholme
#87. Amma and Malati called her a beggar, a whore, and it was clear from the disbelief on her face that she had never been spoken to in such manner. [....] On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.
Vivek Shanbhag
#88. It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose
#89. Let the beggar speak for himself. He's in earnest. Haven't we been bred on the principle of self-sacrifice, till we've come to think a man's self is his uncleanest possession?
Bernard Capes
#90. Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Tim Sanders
#91. Six Lines
I know that in this world no one needs me,
me, a word-beggar in the Jewish graveyard
Who needs a poem, especially in Yiddish?
Only what is hopeless on this earth has beauty
and only the ephemeral is godly
and humility is the only true rebellion
Aaron Zeitlin
#92. with a scruffy man who looked like a beggar, dressed all in black.
Brandon Sanderson
#93. True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#95. There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley's cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this fellow. Some funny little beggar in the Civil Service with an OBE and a gold watch. Sawley was damned annoyed.
John Le Carre
#96. No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass.
George R R Martin
#97. Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
Peter Mullan
#98. The life of an unhappy rich person is poorer than a happy beggar.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#100. The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!
M. E. W. Sherwood
