(46 quotes found)
“Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant”
Proverb
“Description Beggared: or the allegory of WHITENESS,”
Mac Wellman
“Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar”
Henry Porter
“Some come, and some arise and depart. They give themselves lofty names. Some are born beggars, and some hold vast courts. Going to the world hereafter, everyone shall realize that without the Name, it is all useless.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we find him. / He's out on active service, wiping something off a slate - / And he's left a lot of little things behind him!”
Rudyard Kipling
“All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.”
Walter Benjamin
“A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“The boy, a bare-legged beggarly son of a gun.”
C. S. Calverley
“Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
