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The beggar wears all colors fearing none. -- Charles Lamb
Is an artist much more than a beggar? -- Clara Schumann
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. -- Philip Massinger
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. -- Antonin Artaud
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. -- Elizabeth I
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect. -- Agnes Repplier
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. -- Don Herold
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. -- Karl Kraus
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. -- Rudyard Kipling
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. -- Ben Hecht
Beggars can't be choosers. -- John Heywood
And love is love, in beggars and in kings. -- Edward Dyer
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. -- Octavio Paz
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers. -- Nicole Kidman
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he... -- Emily Dickinson
He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home. -- Stijn Streuvels
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation. -- Martha Gellhorn
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom. -- Anzia Yezierska
Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters. -- Peter Mullan
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger. -- Giovanni Guareschi
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has all too much a professional air. -- Mary McCarthy
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me. -- John James Audubon
Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?' -- Mo Ibrahim
I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume. -- Mindy Kaling
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 Green Ingersoll
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. -- Margaret Cavendish
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger. -- Giovanni Guareschi
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound. -- Saint Ambrose
Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration. -- A. R. Rahman
No nation respects a beggar. -- Elijah Muhammad
A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar. -- Homer
The bashful beggar has an empty purse. -- William Cranch Bond
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. -- William Shakespeare
A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. -- William Shakespeare
Modesty is of no use to a beggar. -- Homer
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? -- Thomas Otway
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. -- Juvenal
I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. -- Friedrich Schiller
The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool. -- Georgia Douglas Johnson
...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion. -- Donald Miller
We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity. -- Dalai Lama
The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar. -- L. S. Lowry
To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king. -- Dalai Lama
BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends. -- Ambrose Bierce
Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. -- Jean Baudrillard
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. -- Horace
Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar. -- Rajneesh
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread. -- Daniel Thambyrajah Niles
Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. -- Robert Greene
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging. -- Oscar Wilde
A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy. -- Brennan Manning
Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. -- Jim Carrey
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. -- Adam Smith
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. -- Rajneesh
Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer. -- Hesiod
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. -- Lord Byron
As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. -- Walter Benjamin
This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it. -- Johnny Hunt
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy -- Benjamin Franklin
The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. -- Morris L. Ernst
Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong. -- Mason Cooley
To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings. -- Sidney Sheldon
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. -- Dietrich von Hildebrand
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. -- Rajneesh
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. -- Peire Cardenal
You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world. -- Rumi
Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it. -- Thomas Chalmers
I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar. -- Nathan Bedford Forrest
Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar. -- Guru Gobind Singh
Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl. -- Guru Nanak
A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem. -- T. B. Joshua
Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? -- Jethro Tull
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. -- Elizabeth I
If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death. -- Jacoby Shaddix
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. -- Elizabeth I
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men. -- Corrie Ten Boom
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage. -- William Gurnall
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. -- Mason Cooley
A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by. -- William Butler Yeats
I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role. -- Malcolm X
I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give. -- John Heywood
Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys) -- George R. R. Martin
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
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools. -- Robert Hunter
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket. -- Charles Lamb
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty. -- Rumman Bin Sadiq
From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many. -- Philip Massinger
Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
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-- -- D. H. Lawrence
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity. -- James Russell Lowell
One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar" -- Zicheng Hong
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion. -- Donald Miller
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 and Faith leaps over it. -- Jim Carrey
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. -- George Bernard Shaw
When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it. -- Albert J. Nock
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one. -- Peire Cardenal
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. -- Charles Lamb
Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge. -- Robert Browning
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
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain. -- Gautama Buddha
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary -- William Shakespeare
I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner. -- Charles Dickens
Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it. -- Derek Taylor

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