Quotes About Beggars

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.' 'And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina. 'That's not surprising. Pity can only be shown in small doses. When so many beggars are in one place, the public goes like this' - he put his fists to his eyes, like binoculars.

There were pictures from cricket matches, and the statement by the Australian captain about a bunch of Third World beggars who think they can play cricket. And then the jubilation and fireworks and celebration when the bunch of beggars defeated Australia in the Test Series.

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

All life was here. With respectable citizens mixed beggars – who made their trade obvious – and pickpockets – who did not.

I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn't have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer by not competing.

My pride stoned by blind men and my disillusion trampled on by beggars.

Having people like that in your service degrades such service, when they are going around the world like beggars." Such was the advice from her Majesty, Empress of the German Empire, on the subject of hiring Wolfgang Mozart.

Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark,The beggars are coming to town;Some in rags, some in tags,And some in velvet gowns.

This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we're desperate, if we feel like we're beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we're tradesmen.

For myself I like to take my sorrow into the shadow of old monasteries, my guilt into cloisters and under tapestries, and into the misericordes of unimaginable cantinas where sad-faced potters and legless beggars drink at dawn…

When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars. Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping.

The condition of job-seekers is like that of beggars who can't be choosers, so don't buy the empty words of advisers.

But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them.

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.'

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

Note: Any vision or aspiration without a plan or an action to actualize it is nothing else but a mere wish. And mind you, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride ~Emeasoba George

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

Beggars do not work, it is said; but, then, what is WORK? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course--but, then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

it turns out we were some peoplewhich has been chosen by God to be happy in a different way# beggars

Beware of little expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again, Who Dainties love, shall Beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.

Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to the pleading of beggars, worked without a measure of it.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.