(46 quotes found)
“Beggars should be abolished entirely! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy”
Benjamin Franklin
“Beggars can't be choosers”
Proverb
“Beggars can never be bankrupts”
“A blade of grass is light, cotton is lighter, the beggar is infinitely lighter still. Why then does not the wind carry him away? Because it fears that he may ask alms of him.”
Chanakya
““The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn’t permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.””
Carlos Castaneda
“Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.”
Georges Bidault
“The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.”
Charles Lamb
“He that has neither fools, whores nor beggars among his kindred, is the son of a thunder-gust”
“Beggars can never be bankrupt.”
American Proverb
