Beggar 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

“Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king, but also a king who thinks he is a king.”
― Jacques Lacan

“The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have, is to so live, and so improve himself in heart and brain, as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. That is my idea. There is no success in life without love and marriage. You had better be the emperor of one loving and tender heart, and she the empress of yours, than to be king of the world. The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar, his life has been a success.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

“In the body, where everything has a price,
I was a beggar.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“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

“Better a beggar than a thief.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“الإنسان ملك وهو يحلم، وشحاذ عندما يصحو من النوم !”
― أنيس منصور, عاشوا في حياتي

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

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

“Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“Stop acting like a beggar,
know your place fool.

You’re a royal guest, a royal guest—
that has been sent to this beautiful illusion.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Beggars, alas, could not be choosers.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

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

“Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars
Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame,
That many have and others must sit there;
And in this thought they find a kind of ease”
― William Shakespeare, King Richard II

“For no man has adherents on the day of woe.
I gave to the beggar, I raised the orphan,
I gave success to the poor as to the wealthy..”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“There is no excuse to give for being a beggar. We all have imaginations to work out our dreams. Work yours out.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“I may become a beggar as a personal choice, it is between my entity and me, but it is impossible that I become a beggar as a leader, it is between my entire nation and me, and I cannot let nation, humiliating.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Begging is the only profession that does not demand you to be medically fit”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“He saw a woman, her face awash with misery, standing in front of him. She was holding a child in her arms and as soon as he looked up at her, she placed the child on his lap. Grief must have withheld her speech. Without saying a word she spread an open palm in front of him.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“The king has been robbed by beggars.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“He was an incurable dandy living the life of a beggar. And living wholly in the past!”
― Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

“No one in this world can starve n die.. One who does, was already dead.. cause, least one meal can certainly be earned by anyone.

Never give money to beggars and specially to children on street... By giving them money, You will be killing them or helping them in dieing (indirectly)”
― Honeya

“The beggar who can write and read requires proper motivation than daily support from others.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Resistance To Intolerance

“It is only the illiterate beggar who needs full support from you both in food and better quality of educational programmes.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Resistance To Intolerance

“No one in this world can starve and die.. One who does, had died long back.. because, least one meal can certainly be earned by anyone.

Never give money to beggars and specially to children on street... By giving them money, You will be killing them or helping them in dieing (indirectly)”
― honeya

“No one ever gets rid of beggary to avoid beggars.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Best beggars are the ones who borrow.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“He'd dusted off his old beggar's costume - well, it was supposed to be dirty, so he'd more dusted onto it - for an appearance here and there. However, he wanted to be gainfully occupied. And stay close to some important, relevant people who tended to look poorly on someone who could fill a garden with good topsoil merely by shivering”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“a dead chicken is worth more than a beggar. If there was a dead chicken on the road, people would fight for it. But a dead beggar? They’d all run off and hide, afraid they might have to do some work.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Fugitive