He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Everything belongs to me because I am poor.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.
Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
He ate and drank the precious words, his spirit grew robust; he knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was dust.
The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.