Rich Beggar Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Detroit is a great deli city. If only GM could learn from what the delis in Detroit are doing! The best rye bread anywhere - double-baked, crispy, warm rye that they serve their sandwiches with - and great corned beef. It's a passionate deli town.

David Sax

#3. 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

#4. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Stephen Hawking

#5. Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

Dexter Kozen

#6. I know that 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 one for the alms of my guilt.

Ben Hecht

#7. I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

Corrie Ten Boom

#8. God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. 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

#10. My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

Jacoby Shaddix

#12. I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

Kobe Bryant

#13. 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

#14. Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

April Winchell

#15. 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

#16. Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

Jethro Tull

#17. No, Wright wouldn't like the bird - a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.

Susan Glaspell

#18. You got spark You you got spunk You you got something all the girls want

Nicki Minaj

#19. Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Tim Sanders

#20. The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

Ron Wyden

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

Debasish Mridha

#22. I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.

Ed Sheeran

#23. 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

#24. My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Brigitte Bardot

#25. 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