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Beggars can't be choosers. -- John Heywood
Beggars market their incapacity. -- Mason Cooley
Beggars should be no choosers. -- John Heywood
Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby. -- Mason Cooley
Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas. -- Mason Cooley
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful. -- Bertrand Russell
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period. -- Sherri Saum
If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. -- Octavio Paz
And love is love in beggars and in kings. -- Edward Dyer
I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers. -- Nicole Kidman
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. -- Mason Cooley
He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home. -- Stijn Streuvels
Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care. -- Muhammad Yunus
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars. -- Steven Rattner
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
I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know? -- Emmanuel Jal
I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me. -- Om Puri
For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system. -- Mike Huckabee
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 an all too professional air. -- Mary McCarthy
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now. -- Carol Vorderman
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. -- Abbe Pierre
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught. -- Michel Onfray
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars. -- Kiran Desai
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul. -- Lady Gregory
My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.' -- Bobby Knight
When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot. -- Chris Hughes
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials. -- Charles Caleb Colton
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. -- Joanne Harris
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. -- John Ray
If wishes were stories, beggars would read... -- Randall Jarrell
Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors. -- Augustus Toplady
Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line. -- Charles Bukowski
They are but beggars that can count their worth. -- William Shakespeare
And love is love, in beggars and in kings. -- Edward Dyer
We are all beggars, each in his own way. -- Mark Twain
Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing. -- Garth Nix
Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. -- James Shikwati
The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one. -- Benjamin Franklin
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars. -- Fidel Castro
People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. -- Dominick Dunne
The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ. -- Matthew Henry
You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars. -- Arthur M. Jolly
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. -- Homer
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing. -- William Hazlitt
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. -- Horace
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death. -- William Shakespeare
We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars. -- M.F. Moonzajer
When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. -- William Shakespeare
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. -- William Butler Yeats
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul. -- Neil Morrissey
Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs. -- Georges Bidault
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. -- William Shakespeare
Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty. -- Swami Vivekananda
Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs -- Georges Bidault
Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth -- Billy Corgan
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. -- William Shakespeare
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars? -- Jeffrey R. Holland
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it. -- Georges Bernanos
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before. -- Franz Grillparzer
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. -- W. H. Auden
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.
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
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. -- Robert Greene
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy! -- Brennan Manning
We live by actionâ??by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to wantâ??whether geniuses or beggarsâ??are related by impotence. -- Fernando Pessoa
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls. -- R. Scott Bakker
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars. -- James Shikwati
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses. -- Duke Ellington
A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask. -- Paul Washer
Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished ... -- Paulo Coelho
Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like customers who can and should demand quality care. -- Muhammad Yunus
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings. -- Thomas Jefferson
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due -- Jonathan Edwards
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men. -- Nick Harkaway
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
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. -- Eckhart Tolle
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.
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars. -- Andre Gide

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