Poorer Than Sayings

#1. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.

George Foreman

#2. A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.

Su Shi

#4. Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

Saint John Chrysostom

#5. It's all taking the customer's money and giving him exactly what he wants and then leaving him poorer than when he started.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

Brian Stableford

#8. The life of an unhappy rich person is poorer than a happy beggar.

Debasish Mridha

#9. No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

Roger Daltrey

#10. He kept on digging but the grave did not get any deeper. "The dead are poor," he said in the voice of the stranger. You can't be any poorer than dead.

Flannery O'Connor

#11. It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in being poorer than people who were smart and beautiful. But to be less affluent than these T-shirted, joke-cracking fatsos-

Jonathan Franzen

#12. 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.

Sydney Madwed

#13. Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

Douglas William Jerrold

#14. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Jonathan Swift

#15. Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Cesare Pavese

#16. But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Richard Adams

#17. The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much poorer than they think most of us are, look enviously over those borders and would like, if they could, to come here.

George F. Kennan

#19. Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

George Foreman

#20. A Spartan, seeing a man taking up a collection for the gods, said that he did not think much of gods who were poorer than himself.

Plutarch

#21. You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

Henry B. Eyring

#22. Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

J.K. Rowling

#23. The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

Andre Geim

#24. That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

William Petty

#25. I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.

Michael Craig-Martin

#26. Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help ...

Walter Benjamin

#27. I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

John Hall

#28. We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you ... and give what you can in a smile, in time, in compassion. The best Christmases always require the gift of self.

Toni Sorenson

#30. Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

Mark Hyman

#31. The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Josiah Strong

#32. In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.

Jethro Tull

#33. Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

Alison Gopnik

#34. The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#35. It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.

Samuel Adams

#36. The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#37. The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

Ludwig Von Mises

#38. One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

Woody Allen

#39. Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.

John Redwood

#40. Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

Charles Horton Cooley

#41. In the late 1960s a woman in the poorer countries of the world typically had six children. Today the average is fewer than three. In fact, demographers now project that the world's population will begin to decline before 2050.47

Stephanie Coontz

#42. My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

Shia Labeouf

#43. The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

William Weld

#44. The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#45. By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.

Evan Osnos

#46. Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#47. The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

David Hare

#48. I came home poorer by several hundred dollars and richer by more books than I could carry.

Sara Gruen

#49. How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

Samuel Beckett