Quotes About Beggar

Life is a stage where the worst actor plays the king while the best actor the beggar.

Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king. A quiet and cheerful temperament, happy in the enjoyment of a perfectly sound physique, an intellect clear, lively, penetrating and seeing things as they are, a moderate and gentle will, and therefore a good conscience–these are privileges which no rank or wealth can make up for or replace.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

unemployment was not a mark of the lazy man; that the beggar did not beg because he would not work; that had once been the case in the England he knew best, but things were different now.

My proud step was no interpreter of my heart, for I deeply felt that, though surrounded by every luxury, I was a beggar.

He looked at Roark and saw the calmest, kindest face—a face without a hint of pity. It did not look like the countenance of men who watch the agony of another with a secret pleasure, uplifted by the sight of a beggar who needs their compassion; it did not bear the cast of the hungry soul that feeds upon another's humiliation.

And I can never feel the glad radiance of sunlit days without sadly remembering and pondering over the fate of the beggar who was such an outcast in life, that his horrible death was a relief to all who had known him.

He was summertime itself, young, luminous, lit from within by rekindled hopes and reawakened dreams. And every beggar along his path—herself included—could expect redoubled generosity and kindness.

To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne'er so witty;A beggar that is dumb, you know,Deserveth double pity.

To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

Oh, my lord, I know it, I do." The beggar laughed. "I own the place, technically. Now, regarding those coins for old Hoid, my good lord…

He was an incurable dandy living the life of a beggar. And living wholly in the past!

Chantal berpikir: aku sudah jadi idola erotik seorang pengemis. Alangkah terhormat! Lalu dia koreksi dirinya sendiri: mengapa birahi pengemis harus kurang terhormat daripada nafsu pebisnis? Justru karena nafsu birahi pengemis tidak bakalan kesampaian, dalam nafsu itu terkandung sesuatu yang tak ternilai harganya: birahi itu merdeka dan tulus.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

I am here to do your bidding, Master. I am your slave, and you will reward me, for I shall be faithful. I have worshipped you long and afar off. Now that you are near, I await your commands, and you will not pass me by, will you, dear Master, in your distribution of good things? He is a selfish old beggar anyhow.

Dar Óma I was a beggar You threw me a smile I ran off delirious into the distance later, tired hungry I sat down now people toss me coins I throw them back at them all I ever wanted was Your smile

We destroy to create. But we deny the value of everything we destroy, which serves to make its destruction easier on our consciences. All that we reshape to suit us is diminished, its original beauty for ever lost. We have no value system that does not beggar the world, that does not slaughter the beasts we share it with—as if we are the gods.

Nobody knew how good I was, nobody knew what I could do. I was some kind of miracle. The sun tossed yellow everywhere and I cut through it, a crazy knife on wheels. My father was a beggar in the streets of India but all the women in the world loved me...

A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.

Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.