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Beggar Quotes

No nation respects a beggar.

No nation respects a beggar.

Elijah Muhammad

Beggar, Nations

Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.229, Secretarius MEMPS Publications

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

Augustus Toplady

Grace, Debtors, Beggar

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

Study, Appearance, Beggar

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

Way, Beggar

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

Dietrich von Hildebrand

Compromise, Beggar, Conscience

Dietrich von Hildebrand, John Henry Crosby (2014). “My Battle Against Hitler: Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich”, p.12, Image

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Kings, Real, Beggar

"Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, II. 9, 1779.

Beggars market their incapacity.

Incapacity, Begging, Beggar

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Wretchedness, Beggary

Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.10

Beggars can't be choosers.

Poverty, Beggar

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

Money, Kings, Beggar

Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

Artist, Beggar

Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Eva Weissweiler, Hildegard Fritsch, Ronald L. Crawford (1994). “The complete correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann”, Peter Lang Pub Inc

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

Horse, Beggar, Beggary

Robert Greene (1883). “The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene ...”

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Horse, Wish, Beggar

Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Jean de La Fontaine

Buried, Emperor, Beggar

"La Matrone d'Ephèse", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 64-65, 1922.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Charles Spurgeon

Keys, Beggary, Idleness

Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.269, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

Want, Beggar

Beggars should be no choosers.

Should, Begging, Beggar

John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.170

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Earth, Graves, Beggar

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

Seneca the Younger

Refusal, Court, Beggar

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 64-65, Hippolytus, II. 593, 1922.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Writing, Beggar, Western

Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

Money, Begging, Beggar

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.

Firsts, Steps, Beggar

Source: www.spiegel.de

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Fear, Color, Beggar

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

Brennan Manning

Doors, Mercy, Beggar

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

Graves, Beggar

Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.266

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