Quotes About A Pauper

#1. Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

Jane Brody

#2. Mozart, who was buried in a pauper's grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer - that is the ultimate success.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#3. Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

Jeffrey Archer

#4. Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.

Ogwo David Emenike

#5. dozens of groups of seven to sit on the dozens of trials that would take place, each group composed, as decreed by Terial himself, of the Seven: a mother, a merchant, a pauper, a prelate, a soldier, a son, and a dying man.

Brian Staveley

#6. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.

Charles Dickens

#7. Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#8. You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. A miser is merely a pauper with fewer friends.

Anthony Ryan

#10. Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

James A. Michener

#11. I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread if he tells himself that at any moment a stranger will bequeath to him his fortune. We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies.

Marcel Proust

#12. A bar of gold means much more to a pauper than to a king

Brandon Mull

#13. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race

Frank Sinatra

#14. There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal - there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

Harper Lee

#15. If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Mentioned in
Sixty Days and Counting, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I'll tell you something: I'll always be broke. It's a tradition in the family. My grandfather was a bankrupt. My father was a pauper. My uncle was a miser: he went crazy because he couldn't find any money to mise over.

James Hadley Chase

#17. A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.

Dennis Adonis

#18. He's cocky but wounded, charming but lonely, with the sureness of a wealthy man and the desperation of a pauper. I can't figure him out, but one thing is certain. Daren is not as tough or undamaged as he lets on.

Chelsea Fine

#19. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Herman Melville

#20. There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#21. The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

Honore De Balzac

#22. The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Gloria Steinem

#23. Well; I would rather die yonder than in a street, or on a frequented road, ' I reflected. 'And far better that crows and ravens -if any ravens there be in these regions- should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a work-house coffin, and moulder in a pauper's grave.

Charlotte Bronte

#24. I was in a kind of agony. I was right on the point of coming out with the words, "Lloyd, I'm a pauper myself - absolutely penniless, and in debt!" But a white-hot idea came flaming through my head, and I gripped my jaws together, and calmed myself down till I was as cold as a capitalist

Anonymous

#25. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Adelle Davis

#26. If you have talent and energy, you're king. If you have only energy and no talent, you're still a prince. But if you have talent and no energy, you're a pauper.

Jeffrey Archer

#27. A pauper in the midst of wealth.

Horace

#28. A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Juvenal

#29. It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.

Albion Fellows Bacon

#30. Mother bid me to tell you: a pauper can never be a prince. Every time you look in the mirror, remember what we did to you. Remember you breathe because we let you. Remember your heart will one day be on our table. Rise so high, in mud you lie.

Pierce Brown

#31. My mother used to say you should eat like a king in the morning, a queen at noon, and a pauper at night

K.S.R. Burns

#32. Rattle his bones
over the stones
its only a pauper
who nobody owns

Neil Gaiman

#33. At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young family. He appeared to be of unsound mind.

Mike Jay

#34. If I had ten sons and didna have ye, I'd be a pauper. Ye're all I have and all I need. Ye are my home.

Mia Marlowe

#35. 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

#36. There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#37. Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

Jacques Maritain

#38. Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

I.L. Peretz

#39. A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#40. A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#41. He looks into my eyes,
mine mirrored in his,
and we each see a boy,
lost in pauper's bliss.

Jay Bell

#42. Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#43. Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

Amanda Hocking

#44. A godly pauper is better than a godless king.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. Miss Tox left her seat in a hurry, and returned to her plants; clipping among the stems and leaves, with as little favour as a barber working at so many pauper heads of hair.

Charles Dickens

#46. It's simply a question of finding the right incentive. Pauper or prince, every man can be bought

Leigh Bardugo

#47. Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things

Tracy Chapman

#48. I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one," he said.
"Life can be difficult for everyone," she replied.
"Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.

Patricia Grasso