Poor Quotes

Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

Dalits are our brothers, but some of us do not embrace them like brothers. But when they go away and become Christians, some of us take pride in associating with them. This should stop.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

Poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common. Rich people don’t give a damn about either group.

If we speak poorly about that which we do well, people will assume we perform poorly!