Quotes About Beggar

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.

He was lanky, wiry as an apostrophe mark, and dressed in clothes that appeared to have come from a beggar's bin.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

The true beggar is the true king.

It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.

A woman, feeling sorry for a beggar who had come to her door, invited him in and offered him food. On the table was a pile of dark bread—and a few slices of challah. The shnorrer (beggar) promptly fell upon the challah. "There's black bread, too," the woman hinted. "I prefer challah." "But challah is much more expensive!" "Lady," said the beggar, "it's worth it." That, I think, is chutzpa.

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.

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness: A True Story by Joel ben Izzy.

I chuckled over this paradoxical view of renunciation—one which puts the cap of Croesus on any saintly beggar, whilst transforming all proud millionaires into unconscious martyrs.

The beggar has wrapped his legs and feet in brown paper tape, and the effect is startlingly medieval, as though someone has partially sculpted a knight from office materials. The trim calves, the tapered toes, an elegance calling out for ribbons. Above the tape, the man is a blur, a spastic scribble, his being abraded by concrete and misfortune. He has become the color of pavement, his very race in question.

I don't think that elegant Miss Nigeria will have the imagination or the conscience to explore the possibilities of that encounter. She will dodge the rude beggar and speed away in her expensive car to a sterile assignation with her bloated Mr. Hoverhead Capital.

Now our Nile has turned to blood and in the cafes the scholars jest about a cosmic wound. Priests no longer smile at our catalogue of charities and even the beggars whom we pity and love refuse our coins with a curse.

Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given -- it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.

Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.

And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores

When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.