Top 100 Die Poor Quotes
#1. My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.
Kenny Troutt
#2. Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.
Vernor Vinge
#3. If u are born poor then it's not your mistake but if u die poor then it is your mistake
Bill Gates
#4. If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.
Bill Gates
#5. I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.
Richard C. Armitage
#6. She didn't know the going price of cattle on the hoof, or the per acre value of land in this part of the country, but from what she could tell, no Nicholson was ever going to die poor.
Susan Mallery
#7. I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.
Pope Pius X
#8. The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.
William J. Bernstein
#9. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.
Walter Moers
#10. The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#11. No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime
Bill Gates
#13. Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Pope John XXIII
#14. If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.
Bill Gates
#15. Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg
#16. I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#17. Though waiters always die poor, they have long runs of luck occasionally.
George Orwell
#18. The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!
Francis Quarles
#19. Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.
Roger Rosenblatt
#20. Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
Philip James Bailey
#21. It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
Luigi Orione
#22. The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal ... (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)
Elie Wiesel
#23. Those who eat porridge and those who drink gruel live and die.
Even though the faces change,
porridge eaters and gruel drinkers continue to manifest.
Santosh Lamichhane
#25. Finally found my paradise ... on a beach in Clearwater. When I die ring the bells and bury me at sea ... a few steps from my home!
Timothy Pina
#26. Poor thing.
To die and never see Brooklyn.
Anne Sexton
#27. I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace and thrown into war when kings yearn to test the clarity of their vision.
Ken Liu
#28. We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars.
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. Far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
Isabel Allende
#30. WHAT IS GREATER THAN GOD, MORE EVIL THAN THE DEVIL? THE POOR HAVE IT. THE RICH NEED IT. AND IF YOU EAT IT, YOU WILL DIE.
Ernie Lindsey
#31. Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.
David Gemmell
#32. And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.
George Orwell
#33. May your life be rich in blessings and poor in misfortunes. May you see your children's children grow up and make you proud. May your fights be short, your laughter loud, and your passion hot. May you live long and die happy.
Ilona Andrews
#34. Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
#35. We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
Muriel Barbery
#36. Or, what does a poor man have, a rich man need, and you would die if you ate it? Stuff
R.J. Palacio
#37. Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them.
M.F. Moonzajer
#38. And be very careful at the front, Paul."
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!
Erich Maria Remarque
#39. When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#40. Why should some poor animal die just because it tastes good to us?
Oliver Bowden
#41. New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
Duke Ellington
#42. I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
Nina Simone
#43. if u born poor it is not your mistake,if you die it is your mistake.
Kalam
#44. No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.
Chris Pavesic
#45. My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish.
Isabel Allende
#46. The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#47. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh
Charles Dickens
#48. Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!
Andy Andrews
#49. I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
David Livingstone
#51. If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Proverb
#52. Maternal health generally gets minimal attention because those who die or suffer injuries overwhelmingly start with three strikes against them: They are female, they are poor, and they are rural. Women are marginalized in the developing world, They are an expendable commodity.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#53. The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.
Patty Duke
#54. We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.
Frans De Waal
#55. All around him the chanting swelled, Harm no one, harm no one. What the hell did that mean? He was going to have to shoot the poor son of a bitch, but maybe that was a far better way to go than what the house of horrors had planned. This was a hell of a way for men to die, even if they deserved it.
Christine Feehan
#56. If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
Al Franken
#57. When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them
Mother Teresa
#58. Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity.
Archibald Marwizi
#59. The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.
Orison Swett Marden
#60. Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her. But that she could marry the young man she pleased because she had cried with me, and mingled her tears with mine. ~ Erik
Gaston Leroux
#61. 7Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): 8Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches - Feed me with the food allotted to me; 9Lest I be full and deny You, And say, "Who is the LORD?" Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#62. And yet neither the bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for whom nevertheless Christ has died, and who are not permitted to hear Him speak with them as the true Shepherd with His sheep.
Martin Luther
#63. The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
Lou Reed
#64. The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.
Helen Prejean
#65. he hoped she would be happy, and never regret having driven her poor boy out into the unfeeling world to suffer and die.
Mark Twain
#66. Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
Glen Cook
#67. An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
Robert A. Heinlein
#68. But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?
'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.
Emile Zola
#69. See, Cletus has this thing for cheese, but since he has no thumbs he has to have me give him his cheese on his food every night. If I die, no one else knows about Cletus and the cheese, and poor old Cletus would lose his mind. So I can't die until he does. See how that works? (Jack)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.
John Climacus
#71. Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.
Stephen Fry
#72. The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live
Agona Apell
#73. I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#74. Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
Walt Whitman
#75. Keep your friends close and your beneficiaries closer...Poor words to live by. Even worse to die by.
Brandy Heineman
#76. Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
William Shakespeare
#77. The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
Plutarch
#78. Taxes," said rich dad. "You're taxed when you earn. You're taxed when you spend. You're taxed when you save. You're taxed when you die." "Why do people let the government do that to them?" "The rich don't," said rich dad with a smile. "The poor and the middle class do.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#79. Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.
Stella Young
#80. SIR! SIR! SIR! FORGET THAT 'SIR' STUFF, WILL YOU? I'll bet if that were the president or governor or mayor or some rich son of a bitch, there would be doctors all over that room doing something! Why do you just let them die? What's the sin in being poor?
Charles Bukowski
#81. More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
Margaret Atwood
#82. You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.
Glendon Swarthout
#83. I realize now that what I was trying to do with the Armaghast data was offer the Church not a rebirth but only a transition to a false life such as these poor walking corpses inhabit. If the Church is meant to die, it must do so - but do so gloriously, in the full knowledge of its rebirth in Christ.
Dan Simmons
#84. Poor little girl. Poor little girl, Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.
Philippa Gregory
#86. For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
Elizabeth Of The Trinity
#87. The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
Jeremy Rifkin
#88. I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.
Hilda Doolittle
#90. If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.
Shimen Ruskin
#91. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
Sarah Kendzior
#92. This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly ... a tragedy ... what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!
Pope Francis
#93. It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.
Edward De Bono
#94. No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his country.
George S. Patton Jr.
#95. What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.
Peter Maurin
#96. War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
Secretly armed against all death's endeavour;
Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall;
And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.
Rupert Brooke
#97. Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!
George Darley
#98. All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.
Noam Chomsky
#99. IF LIFE WAS A THING THAT MONEY COULD BUY .....THE RICH WOULD LIVE AND THE POOR WOULD DIE.
John H. Sibley
#100. Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann
