Beggar Quotes - page 2

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
If a Cynic is an object of pity, he seems a mere beggar; all turn away, all are offended at him. Nor should be be slovenly of look, so as not to scare men from him in this way either; on the contrary, his very roughness should be clean and attractive. View quote
Epictetus
"Who are you?" I asked the phantom, "I am rest from Hate and Pride. "I am friend to king and beggar, "I am Alpha and Omega, "I was councilor to Hagar "But men call me suicide." I was weary of tide breasting, Weary of the world's behesting, And I lusted for the resting As a lover for his bride. View quote
Robert E. Howard
There are various ways of flattering, and, of course, you must adapt your style to your subject. Some people like it laid on with a trowel, and this requires very little art. With sensible persons, however, it needs to be done very delicately, and more by suggestion than actual words. A good many like it wrapped up in the form of an insult, as-"Oh, you are a perfect fool, you are. You would give your last sixpence to the first hungry-looking beggar you met;" while others will swallow it only when administered through the medium of a third person, so that if C wishes to get at an A of this sort, he must confide to A's particular friend B that he thinks A a splendid fellow, and beg him, B, not to mention it, especially to A. Be careful that B is a reliable man, though, otherwise he won't. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity. View quote
R. Scott Bakker
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure. View quote
Margaret Cavendish
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop. View quote
Robert Burton
I am going to talk at some length about Egypt, because it has very many remarkable features and has produced more monuments which beggar description than anywhere else in the world. View quote
Herodotus
I've begged more than a starved beggar and dearly miss my princess mi amore cadenza And afraid of the laughter of the cunning Moon, the fierce hunter who starves himself to win the prey, Under the threat of things that will never pass... For all terror is nothing more than nightmares that are made manifest for forever in the prison that is a false reality. View quote
Tristan Corbière
I am a beggar for the poor. Serving humanity is the biggest Jihad. View quote
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Being a beggar, he said, was not his fault, and he refused either to have any compunction about it or to let it trouble him. He was the enemy of society, and quite ready to take to crime if he saw a good opportunity. He refused on principle to be thrifty. In the summer he saved nothing, spending his surplus earnings on drink, as he did not care about women. If he was penniless when winter came on, then society must look after him. He was ready to extract every penny he could from charity, provided that he was not expected to say thank you for it. He avoided religious charities, however, for he said it stuck in his throat to sing hymns for buns. He had various other points of honour; for instance, it was his boast that never in his life, even when starving, had he picked up a cigarette end. He considered himself in a class above the ordinary run of beggars, who, he said, were an abject lot, without even the decency to be ungrateful. (George Orwell)
When next he came to me he was drunk-royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations-as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
It may be true that I had dancing in my blood... I was a toddler when I danced deliriously with that street beggar. All called him a madman when he brought the house down with his frenetic dancing. Was he really mad? His unerring jatis (danced to rhythmic patterns) reverberate in my mind. Who knows which siddhapurusha (literally: "with all accomplishments”) he was? I can still see the gleam in his eye. If I am dance-mad now how could it be otherwise?... My first guru was a madman. View quote
Balasaraswati
The beggar wears all colors fearing none. View quote
Charles Lamb
An housbande can not well thryue by his come without he haue other cattell, nor by his cattell without come. For els he shall be a byer, a borrower or a beggar. View quote
Anthony Fitzherbert
One day, while I was painting a landscape in the neighbourhood of Algiers [March 1881] I saw a man approaching who seemed to be dressed in purple and cloth-of-gold... When the traveler reached me, my illusion vanished; my emir was nothing but a flea-bitten beggar. The sun, the divine sun had enriched him with its light... It's always the same in Algeria. The magic of the sun transmutes the palm-trees into gold, the water seems full of diamonds and men become the Kings from the East. View quote
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it. View quote
Jim Carrey
A writer who does not write is nothing. One may as well be a fisherman who doesn't fish, a stripper who doesn't strip, or a beggar who doesn't beg. View quote
Caitlín R. Kiernan
He's no end of fun, for all you say. Poor little beggar. A human, if ever we saw one. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold. (James Russell Lowell)
At times, in the scales of misery, society seemed of small account to Leopardi – emperor and beggar alike pitched into the grave. So conceived, philosophical pessimism always risked becoming political defeatism. Timpanaro was not subject to this temptation. He was intensely – even on occasion, he admitted, too vehemently – political. But he was also quite free from the monomania of any ‘pan-politicism', as he once called it. View quote
Perry Anderson
Stand not a beggar before the door of science seeking power that kills more than heals. View quote
Swami Sivananda
To be a poet is to be taller, to be bigger Than men! It is to bite as if you're kissing! It is to give alms, although you are a beggar like King of the Realm where only pain is missing!It is to have a thousand desires for splendor And do not even know what we want! It is to have inside yourself a flaming star, It is to have the condor's mighty claw and wing!It is to be hungry, to be thirsty of Infinity! By helmet, golden and satin mornings... It is to condense the world into one lonely cry!And it is loving you, thus, hopelessly... And it is you being soul, and blood, and life in me And tell it singing to everyone! View quote
Florbela Espanca
The King in a carriage may ride, And the Beggar may crawl at his side; But in the general race, They are traveling all the same pace. View quote
Edward FitzGerald (poet)