Robert Cooper > Robert's Quotes

“Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.”
― Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion

“A great man who is vicious will be a great example of vice and a rich man who is not generous will be merely a miserly beggar, for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it but by spending it, and not by spending it as he pleases but by knowing how to spend it well.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“We are all beggars, just begging different things”
― Dido Stargaze

“You are not a beggar at the table of life. You are the honored guest.”
― Pat Rodegast

“The poor man and the beggar are two quite different classes: one commands respect, the other arouses anger.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte, Aphorisms and Thoughts